Changes in Census Vetoed by Reagan
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WASHINGTON — President Reagan on Wednesday vetoed a bill he said would have added unnecessary questions about residential plumbing, heating and cooling to the 1990 census.
Reagan, in a statement, said the questions “would not produce data sufficiently useful to justify their inclusion” and would “increase administrative costs and add to the paper work burden imposed on the public by the census.”
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