There’s a House hearing today on whether and how non-citizens should be excluded from the census count for purposes of apportionment, since as foreigners they shouldn’t have representation in Congress. I published something on this a couple years back and the way it works is that foreigners — legal immigrants, “temporary” workers and students, and illegal aliens — are counted for purposes of distributing House seats among the states and for drawing district lines for both Congress and the state legislatures. For instance, Indiana, Michigan, and Mississippi each lost a congressional seat because of illegal aliens in other states were included in the 2000 census. And if the president gets his way, his millions of additional “willing workers” will also be counted and have representation in Congress. Three-fifths rule, anyone?