nola.com - 10/31/2009
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Landrieu rejects Vitter's census-citizenship idea By Bruce Alpert, Times-Picayune October 27, 2009, 7:21PM Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., on Tuesday rejected a request from six of Louisiana's seven House members that she support a measure requiring the 2010 census add a question about the ...
news.yahoo.com - 30 days ago
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WASHINGTON Senate Democrats have blocked a GOP attempt
to require next year's census forms to ask people...
whether they are a U.S. citizen. The proposal by Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter was aimed at excluding immigrants from the population ...
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Senate blocks census US
huffingtonpost.com - 11/2/2009
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Senator David Vitter (R-LA) doggedly opposed a congressional
measure last month to prohibit the government from working...
with contractors who deny victims of rape or assault the right to bring their cases to court. Vitter, who was one of only 30 ...
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Vitter Confronted By Rape Victim Over Franken Amendment Vote
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/26/2009
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Rep. Charlie Melancon (D-LA), who is running for
Senate in 2010 against Republican Sen. David Vitter, is...
now stepping up his attacks on Vitter -- declaring that "we can only guess" why Vitter voted against a Senate amendment to crack down on rape. ...
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Melancon: 'We Can Only Guess' Vitter's Reasons For ...
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Gautam Dutta: A Hypocrite Bashes Immigrants
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... to become a US citizen. At any given time, millions of Asian Americans and Latinos are waiting to become naturalized.
So Vitter's scheme is rather simple: if immigrants aren't counted in the Census, the states where they live will suffer in two critical ways. First, they could lose representation in Congress. What's more, they'll be deprived of their fair share of federal funding -- which is based on the census.
To her credit, Louisiana's other Senator, Mary Landrieu, rejected Vitter's ploy as an unconstitutional "political stunt". ...
Vitter Demands Apology From Reid Before Census Amendment Dies In Cloture Vote
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... The 14th Amendment made African American slaves citizens with voting rights and also stipulated that representatives would be apportioned according to “the whole number of persons in each State.” Along those lines, Vitter’s critics actually have suggested that “reapportionment should be done counting citizens and non-citizens” because the Constitution says so.
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) called Vitter’s amendment a “transparent political stunt” that would’ve cost hundreds of millions of dollars. ...
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