Mr. President. I thank the distinguished Senator from New York for yielding. Mr. President. our colleague from Utah makes two points and both of those points are inaccurate. First. he says that apportionment was intended to be based on people who could vote. that when the Founding Fathers were writing. there were no illegal aliens. Mr. President. when the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution women were not citizens and women could not vote and yet clearly they have always been counted in the census and no one has ever disputed that. Our colleague from Utah talks about voting and apportionment. but today children cannot vote and yet there is no one here who would argue that children should not be counted in apportionment.
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