To clarify, the House Republicans passed a law to count citizens on the census instead of just total population. Dems voted against it but it still passed in the House.
To require a citizenship question on the decennial census, to require reporting on certain census statistics, and to modify apportionment of Representatives to be based on United States citizens instead of all persons.
This bill requires any questionnaire used in the decennial census to include a checkbox or other similar option for respondents to indicate whether the respondent and each household member is a U.S. citizen.
The Department of Commerce must make public the number of citizens and noncitizens in each state.
The bill also requires that the statement sent by the President to Congress indicating the number of persons in each state (related to the reapportionment of U.S. Representatives) excludes noncitizens.
Here's the link to the office of the clerk for the House, for this bill #7109
How is this going to be a law? Dems voted no but were outvoted by repubs voting yes? Explain exactly how this is going to be a law?
The law was to prevent it. Dems voted against the law to prevent it.
So, it isn't a new law they passed - it's status quo unless this bill passes in the Senate. Thank you
Yup, the phrasing probably could have been better.
Maybe he’s trying to bait discussion by being obtuse.
Or, he could have phrased it better…!
To clarify, the House Republicans passed a law to count citizens on the census instead of just total population. Dems voted against it but it still passed in the House.
Thank you
Here's the link to the office of the clerk for the House, for this bill #7109
Summary of the bill:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7109
Text of the bill:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7109/text
Thank you