None of the Democrats in the House voted for a bill to add a citizenship question to the census questionnaire that passed through the GOP-led chamber on Wednesday.
The Equal Representation Act, which was introduced by Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC), received 206 “yeas” from Republicans and 202 “nays” from Democrats. Twenty-two members, including 11 Republicans and 11 Democrats, did not vote.
The bill would require a citizenship question on the decennial census starting in 2030. It also demands the findings be reported and modify apportionment of House representatives and electoral votes to exclude noncitizens.
In a statement, Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said the House was “taking steps to proactively protect a fair electoral process” as he bemoaned how the “Biden Administration’s open border policies have created the worst border crisis in American history, impacting every American.”
The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), pointed to one of the amendments to the Constitution in making a case against passing the census questionnaire legislation.
“The Fourteenth Amendment makes the census and reapportionment apply to ‘all persons.’ Constitutional originalists, textualists and followers of precedent must reject unlawful GOP attempts to confine the census and Congressional apportionment to citizens,” Raskin said in a post to X.
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