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HR 5659 96th Congress Government Operations and Politics

A bill to limit the questions that may be asked by the Secretary of Commerce in conducting any enumeration of the population.

Introduced: October 19, 1979 See on congress.gov
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5659: A bill to limit the questions that may be asked by the Secretary of Commerce in conducting any enumeration of the population.. 96th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/96-HR-5659/
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"H.R. 5659: A bill to limit the questions that may be asked by the Secretary of Commerce in conducting any enumeration of the population.." 96th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/96-HR-5659/.
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H.R. 5659, 96th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/96-HR-5659/.
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[H.R. 5659: A bill to limit the questions that may be asked by the Secretary of Commerce in conducting any enumeration of the population.](https://openamerica.io/bill/96-HR-5659/)
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