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The bill requires the Commerce secretary to certify to Congress that any new question sought on a future census be adequately studied and tested.

The House passed legislation Thursday intended to make it harder for future presidents to interfere with the once-a-decade census that determines political power and federal funding, a move that comes in response to the Trump administrations failed effort to make a citizenship question part of the 2020 headcount.

Gaps in digital access and poor data quality disproportionately affect already underserved native communities, one expert says.

The bill faces an uphill climb in the evenly divided Senate given the party-line vote in the House.

The bill faces an uphill climb in the evenly divided Senate given the party-line vote in the House.

The bill faces an uphill climb in the evenly divided Senate given the party-line vote in the House.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House passed legislation Thursday intended to make it harder for future presidents to interfere with the once-a-decade census that

The bill faces an uphill climb in the evenly divided Senate given the party-line vote in the House.

The legislation was approved 220-208 with only Democratic lawmakers voting for it.

The bill faces an uphill climb in the evenly divided Senate given the party-line vote in the House.