S. 3659, also known as the "Equal Representation Act," proposes changes to the way the United States conducts its census and apportions Representatives. The bill mandates the inclusion of a citizenship question in the 2030 decennial census and all subsequent censuses. It...
Simple Explanation
The bill wants to make sure that when the U.S. counts how many people live here every ten years, they also ask if each person is a citizen. It also says that when deciding how many people each state gets to have in the House of Representatives, only citizens should count, not everyone who lives in the country.