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 ...

Dealing a serious blow to congressional supporters of statistical sampling, a panel of Census Bureau experts Thursday recommended against using the controversial method for producing redistricting ...

The U.S. Constitution calls for the government to count the population every 10 years so that congressional seats can be allocated among the states. That, unfortunately, is easier said than done. The ...

WASHINGTON (AP) Republicans used preliminary estimates showing the 2000 census accounted for a higher percentage of Americans than 1990 to fuel their arguments that raw population numbers do not need ...

Governors of Florida and other high-growth states with large mobile and minority populations should unite with the U.S. Census Bureau to appeal an extremely harmful ruling to the Supreme Court. Unless ...

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 ...