January 15, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 8 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   AN IMPORTANT VICTORY FOR DEMOCRACY

  (Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York. Madam Speaker, today, we had an 
important victory for democracy. A Federal judge in New York ordered 
the Trump administration to remove a planned citizenship question from 
the 2020 Census in response to a lawsuit filed by the State of New 
York, which was joined by 17 other States in support. I am proud to 
have led an amicus brief of 126 Members of Congress, also in support of 
this lawsuit.
  The court affirmed what we already knew: adding a citizenship 
question was driven by partisan politics, in violation of the law. The 
Constitution requires that the Census count every person living in our 
country, and the administration's attempt to add a citizenship question 
was a deliberate effort to scare away noncitizens and their families in 
order to undercount this community.
  Fortunately, the court agreed, but there will likely be an appeal. 
That is why I will be introducing legislation to remove the citizenship 
question. We must act quickly.
  Our democracy depends on a full and accurate count of our Nation, and 
we cannot allow the Trump administration to compromise that

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