House GOP passes bill to add citizenship question to census

House Republicans on Wednesday passed a bill that calls for adding a citizenship question to the decennial census, re-upping an issue that the Supreme Court blocked in 2019.

The legislation — titled the Equal Representation Act — cleared the chamber in a party-line 206-202 vote.

The measure would direct the Census Bureau to add a question to the 10-year survey asking for the respondent’s citizenship status and require that the U.S. only consider citizens when determining the...