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House Calendar No. 227 

110TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5599 

[Report No. 110–674] 

To designate the Federal building located at 4600 Silver Hill Road in 

Suitland, Maryland, as the ‘‘Thomas Jefferson Census Bureau Headquarters Building’’. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 12, 2008 

Mrs. MALONEY of New York (for herself, Mr. WYNN, Mr. HOYER, Ms. NORTON, Mr. TOM DAVIS of Virginia, Mr. TURNER, Mr. HONDA, Mr. GONZALEZ, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, Mr. COHEN, and Mr. CANNON) introduced 

the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 

and Infrastructure 

JUNE 3, 2008 

Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed 

A BILL 

To designate the Federal building located at 4600 Silver 

Hill Road in Suitland, Maryland, as the ‘‘Thomas Jefferson Census Bureau Headquarters Building’’. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 

4 Congress finds that— 


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1 (1) Thomas Jefferson, as Secretary of State in 

2 1790, supervised the first modern census in world 

3 history; 

4 (2) the 1790 census was the first national cen5 sus in the United States and the first periodic cen6 sus in the modern nation-state era; 

7 (3) Jefferson urged President Washington to 

8 veto the first apportionment bill presented by Con9 gress on the grounds that it was unconstitutional, 

10 and Jefferson’s own apportionment formula was 

11 adopted and used until 1840; 

12 (4) Jefferson’s mastery of numbers and statis13 tical analysis helped alert the Nation to the impor14 tance of accuracy in the numbers used to describe 

15 the society and pointed to methods that later im16 proved census taking; 

17 (5) Jefferson offered population corrections to 

18 the European diplomatic community to more accu19 rately convey the fast-growing United States popu20 lation, which had been undercounted in previous cen21 sus taking; 

22 (6) Jefferson believed in the importance of ter23 ritorial expansion and insisted on equal representa24 tion for the territories that were to join the Union 

25 as States; 


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1 (7) Jefferson supervised the first census in 

2 world history that gave to the people more than it 

3 took from them, being designed less to extract taxes 

4 or raise a militia than to apportion political power 

5 to the people of the United States according to their 

6 numbers; and 

7 (8) Jefferson’s role in establishing a republic 

8 based on principles of representation underscores the 

9 historical significance of the United States census 

10 and the way the Government views and governs 

11 itself today. 

12 SEC. 2. DESIGNATION. 

13 The Federal building located at 4600 Silver Hill 

14 Road in Suitland, Maryland, shall be known and des15 ignated as the ‘‘Thomas Jefferson Census Bureau Head16 quarters Building’’. 

17 SEC. 3. REFERENCES. 

18 Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, 

19 paper, or other record of the United States to the Federal 

20 building referred to in section 2 shall be deemed to be 

21 a reference to the ‘‘Thomas Jefferson Census Bureau 

22 Headquarters Building’’. 


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House Calendar No. 227 

110TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5599 

[Report No. 110

–674] 

A BILL 

To designate the Federal building located at 4600 

Building’’. ‘‘Thomas Jefferson Census Bureau Headquarters Silver Hill Road in Suitland, Maryland, as the 

JUNE 3, 2008 

Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be 

printed 


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