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Republican House Ignores Jobless Workers, Focuses on Miniature Horses, Census

prainela/House Republicans need to stop horsing around and pass bills working families care about.

The Census was good enough for Thomas Jefferson. But apparently not so for today’s House Republicans. Yesterday, they passed, by 232 to 190, a measure to cut the American Community Survey, conducted annually as part of the U.S. Census.

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