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SCONRES 12 105th Congress Senate Government Operations and Politics Census Families

A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the collection on data on ancestry in the decennial census.

Introduced: March 17, 1997 See on congress.gov
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Mar 17, 1997
Referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.
Mar 17, 1997
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SAMDT 24 — — Pending Mar 19, 1997
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of Commerce should ensure that the information requested in the 2000 decennial census of population with respect to ancestry will be at least as comprehensive as the information that was requested in the 1990 decennial census (in terms of its content and the range of respondents from whom it is sought).

What's happening now March 17, 1997

Referred to the Committee on Governmental Affairs.

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Durbin, Richard J.
Illinois · Jul 25, 1997
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. Con. Res. 12: A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the collection on data on ancestry in the decennial census.. 105th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/105-SCONRES-12/
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"S. Con. Res. 12: A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the collection on data on ancestry in the decennial census.." 105th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/105-SCONRES-12/.
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S. Con. Res. 12, 105th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/105-SCONRES-12/.
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[S. Con. Res. 12: A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the collection on data on ancestry in the decennial census.](https://openamerica.io/bill/105-SCONRES-12/)
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