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House seats and Electoral College votes each state gets for a decade is determined using a census count.
The 14th Amendment requires that count to include the, quote, whole number of persons in each state.
But the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee has advanced a bill that calls for excluding people living in the states without U.S.
citizenship, such as green card holders.
During the last Congress, a similar bill passed the Republican-controlled House but never got a Senate vote.
The current bill is making its way to a possible House floor vote months after President Trump put out a social media call for a, quote, new census that excludes people living in the states without legal status.
That kind of change would be unprecedented in U.S.
history and likely be challenged in court.
Hansi Luwong, NPR News, Washington.
House seats and Electoral College votes each state gets for a decade is determined using a census count.
The 14th Amendment requires that count to include the, quote, whole number of persons in each state.
But the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee has advanced a bill that calls for excluding people living in the states without U.S.
citizenship, such as green card holders.
During the last Congress, a similar bill passed the Republican-controlled House but never got a Senate vote.
The current bill is making its way to a possible House floor vote months after President Trump put out a social media call for a, quote, new census that excludes people living in the states without legal status.
That kind of change would be unprecedented in U.S.
history and likely be challenged in court.
Hansi Luwong, NPR News, Washington.