{"id":1005,"date":"1997-07-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1997-07-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp\/index.php\/1997\/07\/17\/letter-to-james-landrith-re-multiracial-census-category\/"},"modified":"2016-12-13T07:58:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T07:58:37","slug":"letter-to-james-landrith-re-multiracial-census-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/1997\/07\/17\/letter-to-james-landrith-re-multiracial-census-category\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to James Landrith re: Multiracial Census Category"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><H4>07\/17\/97 Letter from<br \/>Senator John Warner (R-VA)<\/H4><\/center><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><b><center>UNITED STATES SENATE<br \/> 225 Russell Senate Office Building<br \/> Washington, DC  20510-4601<br \/> (202) 224-2023<\/p>\n<p>July 17, 1997<\/p>\n<p><\/center>  <\/p>\n<p>Mr. James A. Landrith, Jr.<br \/> P.O. Box 8208<br \/> Alexandria, Virginia 22306-8208<\/p>\n<p>Dear Mr. Landrith:<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for taking the time to contact my office regarding H.R. 830, an Amendment to the Federal Paperwork Reduction Act.  I appreciate hearing from you.<\/p>\n<p>As you may know, Representative Thomas Petri (R-WI) introduced this legislation on February 25, 1997.  This legislation would require all federal collections of information to allow respondents the opportunity to classify themselves as &#8220;multiracial&#8221; or &#8220;multiethnic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, this bill is before the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight.  Should companion legislation be introduced before the Senate, I certainly will keep your comments in mind.  Again, thank you for sharing your views with me.<\/p>\n<p>With kind regards, I am<\/p>\n<p><center>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>John Warner<\/center><\/p>\n<p>JW\/dwm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>07\/17\/97 Letter fromSenator John Warner (R-VA) UNITED STATES SENATE 225 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510-4601 (202) 224-2023 July 17, 1997 Mr. James A. Landrith, Jr. P.O. Box 8208 Alexandria, Virginia 22306-8208 Dear&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,6],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy-and-comment-letters","category-government","tag-government"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-gd","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}