Alan Mollohan

Mr. MOLLOHAN

Mr. MOLLOHAN. I will yield to the gentleman.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the gentleman's amendment

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, first of all, I want to assure the gentleman that the Census Bureau will not use sampling for purposes of apportionment. To the extent that's a concern, I want to extend that assurance. The Supreme Court has already ruled against the use of sampling for the purposes of apportionment, and it will play no role in the apportionment next year. Existing law prohibits the use of sampling for apportionment. This amendment would prevent the Census Bureau from completing important aspects of the census that are unrelated to apportionment, such as coverage measurement. Coverage measurement is used to measure the undercount and thus assure the quality, and provides a performance measure, if you will, Mr. Chairman, for the decennial activities. The Bureau needs this data to identify gaps in coverage and to improve its process so that Americans can be assured of the best possible census in the future. Now, I've heard this debate for the last several censuses. Sitting on this committee, we deal with this issue every 10 years. Sampling is a statistically sound methodology. Again, it's not going to be used for apportionment, assuring the gentleman. But it is a statistically significant and accurate way to have a better count. It's sound, and it achieves accuracy, and that's the whole point, through a scientific method. Now, I didn't take statistics, so I have to rely upon the scientists to tell you this, but I've listened to enough of them assure us that that's the way they get a better count, a more accurate count, and isn't that tremendous that we have these sophisticated methods to achieve that? So to oppose sampling in and of itself, I think, is to disagree that sampling does achieve greater accuracy, and I think that is disagreed with by the scientific community. Mr. Chairman, at this point I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Towns).

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I have no further requests for time, and I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the gentleman's amendment.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Arkansas, a member of the Appropriations Committee, Mr. Berry.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the gentleman's amendment.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 4 minutes to the gentlelady from Maine (Ms. Pingree) who is a member of the Rules Committee.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Maine (Mr. Michaud).

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the gentleman's amendment.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from California, a member of our subcommittee, doing an excellent job on that subcommittee, Mr. Honda.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the gentleman's amendment.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Meeks).

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number of words.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Meeks).

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Thank you for reminding me of that, Mr. Chairman. I yield to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Meeks).

Mr. MOLLOHAN. I yield for a response to the gentleman from California (Mr. Campbell).

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield the balance of my time to the gentleman from California (Mr. Honda).

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I move that the Committee do now rise.

Mr. MOLLOHAN

Mr. MOLLOHAN. I rise in opposition to the gentleman's amendment, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, the National Drug Intelligence Center was requested by the administration. The President's request was for $44.023 million. The request in that amount was approved by the committee. The National Drug Intelligence Center provides strategic drug-related intelligence, document and computer exploitation support, and training assistance to the drug control, public health and law enforcement and intelligence communities in order to reduce the adverse effects of drug trafficking, drug abuse and other drug related criminal activities. In this bill, Mr. Chairman, the organization is funded at our recommendation of $44.023 million, which, I repeat, is at the budget request. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the gentleman's amendment

Mr. MOLLOHAN. Mr. Chairman, I yield 5 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from South Carolina, our majority whip, Mr. Clyburn.

Mr. MOLLOHAN. I yield the gentleman from South Carolina 15 seconds.