IIB 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5599 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JUNE 5, 2008 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and 
Public Works 
AN ACT 
To designate the Federal building located at 4600 Silver 
Hill Road in Suitland, Maryland, as the ‘‘Thomas Jeffer-
son Census Bureau Headquarters Building’’. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds that— 
(1) Thomas Jefferson, as Secretary of State in 
1790, supervised the first modern census in world 
history; 
(2) the 1790 census was the first national cen-
sus in the United States and the first periodic cen-
sus in the modern nation-state era; 
(3) Jefferson urged President Washington to 
veto the first apportionment bill presented by Con-
gress on the grounds that it was unconstitutional, 
and Jefferson’s own apportionment formula was 
adopted and used until 1840; 
(4) Jefferson’s mastery of numbers and statis-
tical analysis helped alert the Nation to the impor-
tance of accuracy in the numbers used to describe 
the society and pointed to methods that later im-
proved census taking; 
(5) Jefferson offered population corrections to 
the European diplomatic community to more accu-
rately convey the fast-growing United States popu-
lation, which had been undercounted in previous cen-
sus taking; 
(6) Jefferson believed in the importance of ter-
ritorial expansion and insisted on equal representa-
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tion for the territories that were to join the Union 
as States; 
(7) Jefferson supervised the first census in 
world history that gave to the people more than it 
took from them, being designed less to extract taxes 
or raise a militia than to apportion political power 
to the people of the United States according to their 
numbers; and 
(8) Jefferson’s role in establishing a republic 
based on principles of representation underscores the 
historical significance of the United States census 
and the way the Government views and governs 
itself today. 
SEC. 2. DESIGNATION. 
The Federal building located at 4600 Silver Hill 
Road in Suitland, Maryland, shall be known and des-
ignated as the ‘‘Thomas Jefferson Census Bureau Head-
quarters Building’’. 
SEC. 3. REFERENCES. 
Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, 
paper, or other record of the United States to the Federal 
building referred to in section 2 shall be deemed to be 
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a reference to the ‘‘Thomas Jefferson Census Bureau 
Headquarters Building’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives June 4, 2008. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
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