S.Amdt. 3980

1. Adds SEC. 766. PREVENTION OF CONGRESSIONAL REAPPORTIONMENT DISTORTIONS on page 614, line 5

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   Inserted: SEC. 766. PREVENTION OF CONGRESSIONAL REAPPORTIONMENT DISTORTIONS.

   Inserted: (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the "Fair and Accurate Representation Act of 2006".

   Inserted: (b) Findings.--Congress finds that--

   Inserted: (1) during the years immediately preceding the date of the enactment of this Act, millions of aliens have entered the United States in violation of Federal immigration law and are unlawfully present in the United States and subject to deportation;

   Inserted: (2) the established policy of the Bureau of the Census is to make a concerted effort to count the foreign born population within the United States without making a separate computation for illegal aliens; and

   Inserted: (3) including the millions of illegal aliens in the reapportionment base for the House of Representatives will result in the loss of congressional representation by many States, in violation of the constitutional principle of "one man, one vote".

   Inserted: (c) Adjustments to Prevent Distortions.--Section 141 of title 13, United States Code, is amended--

   Inserted: (1) by redesignating subsection (g) as subsection (h); and

   Inserted: (2) by inserting after subsection (f) the following:

   Inserted: "(g) The Secretary shall make such adjustments in total population figures as may be necessary, using such methods and procedures as the Secretary determines feasible and appropriate, to ensure that aliens who are in the United States in violation of the immigration laws of the United States are not counted in tabulating population under subsection (b) for the purposes of apportionment of Representatives in Congress among the several States. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to supersede section 195 of this title.".

   Inserted: (d) Conforming Amendment.--Section 22(a) of the Act entitled "An Act To provide for the fifteenth and subsequent decennial censuses and to provide for apportionment of Representatives in Congress", of June 18, 1929 (2 U.S.C. 2a(a)), is amended by striking "as ascertained under the seventeenth and each subsequent decennial census of the population" and inserting "as ascertained and reported under section 141 of title 13, United States Code, for each decennial census of population".

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