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HUNTER BILL WOULD ALLOW CITIZENS TO REFUSE TO ANSWER SOME CENSUS QUESTIONS

 
 
By Miriam Raftery
 
January 25, 2019 (Washington D.C.) — 50th Congressional District representative Duncan D.  Hunter (R-Alpine) has announced plans to introduce a series of bills during the first 100 days of the new Congress.
 
Hunter calls his measures “common sense reforms” and calls on the new Democratic house majority to give his bills full consideration. The first measure he introduced is titled the “Authorizing Moderated Enumeration Responses Including Citizenship Acquisition (AMERICA) Act, which will limit the penalty imposed on U.S. citizens refusing or neglecting to answer one or more questions in connection with the 2020 census.  

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