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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The State Department would be required to work with the Census Bureau to study the best ways to count Americans living overseas under an amendment approved in the U.S. House.
The House approved the amendment on a voice vote Wednesday, The Salt Lake Tribune reported from Washington. It will be added to a State Department budget bill that will now go before the Senate.
The amendment was sponsored by Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah. It is in response to the 2000 census, when Utah missed out on a fourth House seat by just 857 people. Utah officials have argued that the government should have counted more than 11,000 Mormon missionaries living overseas.
The amendment doesn't set a deadline, making it unclear whether it would have any impact on the upcoming 2010 census.
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Information from: The Salt Lake Tribune
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