In another legal setback for the Clinton administration, a second federal court has ruled against the White House’s plan to use statistical sampling in the year 2000 census. The Supreme Court already ...

House Speaker Newt Gingrich has filed his much anticipated lawsuit seeking to prevent the Clinton administration from using a new and contentious method for estimating the country’s population in the ...

Prominent New York Democrats called on President-elect George W. Bush’s nominee for commerce secretary yesterday to use scientific sampling in the new census to correct what they predict will be a ...

Dec. 29, 2000 — -- Even before the Census Bureau released figures this week that will shuffle the number of seats many states have in Congress, Washington was roiling over a second set of numbers ...

WASHINGTON — Several Republicans are questioning whether the Census Bureau should release a second population count--this one more politically sensitive--to account for historically undercounted ...

Try dropping the words "statistical sampling" while in conversation with a Republican politician and watch the sizzle. Why does such a nerdy blending of adjective and noun inflame GOP lawmakers like ...

WASHINGTON — Negotiators from the White House and Speaker Newt Gingrich’s office have reached a tentative agreement that would allow the Census Bureau to test its hotly debated new method for ...

New York City is considering joining a federal lawsuit that challenges the Bush administration’s method for deciding whether sampling should be used in the U. S. census. At issue is a recent decision ...

Left-leaning groups want to include millions of pretend people in the real-life 2010 Census. It almost happened in 2000. This time, they might get their way The administration claims it has "no plans" ...