Speaker. today. by adopting the previous question. we are doing what we all too often do in this House. We are shutting off debate and preventing a very legitimate amendment from being offered by the gentleman from Pennsylvania. When our Constitution was framed. there were no legal aliens. and I think it is now up to us here in the Congress to decide by a majority vote whether or not we should count illegal aliens in the census or whether we should not. and by attempting to shut off the presenting of that amendment by the gentleman. I think it is another disgrace in this body. Mr. Speaker. we should face the issue. We should decide which way it should go. I favor the gentlemans amendment because I believe that. had the framers of the Constitution intended to count illegal aliens. they would have had to be present at the time. Their intent was that they would count every person who was legally a resident of the United States. Mr.
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