Adds a census citizenship question and counts only citizens when dividing House seats

§1What it does

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This bill would require the census questionnaire, which goes out every 10 years, to include a checkbox asking whether the person responding and each member of the household is a U.S. citizen.^2,3 The Commerce Department would have to publish the number of citizens and noncitizens in each state.^2,3 It would also leave noncitizens out of the state population totals the President reports to Congress, which are used to divide U.S. House seats among the states.^2,3 The House passed a version rewritten by its Oversight Committee, which replaced the original bill's four-way question on citizenship and immigration status with a single citizenship checkbox.³

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§3How Congress voted

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