Speech #1010087981

I rise in support of the Conte motion to instruct the conferees and would urge my colleagues to oppose any effort to defeat the previous question which would allow an amendment instructing the conferees to accept Senate language limiting the counting of persons in the 1990 census. Our country has a longstanding 200year history of counting all "persons" in the decennial census as required by the Constitution. We have always included undocumented residents in the State population totals used for congressional apportionment. The continuation of this practice will ensure the proper allocation of congressional seats throughout the next decade. Failure to count all "persons" will result in unequal representation in the U.S.