Lieberman and Hatch are the sponsors of the bill. Orrin felt that UT was cheated out of the 2000 Census. The RATS assured him that Utah will get an extra seat in the 2010 Census.
What the RATs wanted was for DC to get a vote in this Congress (which is unconstitutional), and fished for GOP votes by promising that there would also be a 437th House member in the Congress that would be given to the state that was next in line for a House seat after the 2000 Census (which was Utah, which got robbed of the 435th seat by NC because the Census wouldn’t count Utah residents temporarily out of the country on Mormon missions and used a form of statistical sampling called “hot-deck imputation” to assume that apartments and houses where they don’t answer the Census, are never there when Census workers visit, and the neighbors don’t know who if anyone lives there should be credited with having as many residents as the neighborhood average) to be elected at-large (which is also unconstitutional). Orrin Hatch has absolutely *nothing* to worry about regarding the 2010 Census, since Utah will easily gain a fourth CD to be first elected in 2012.