These are tough things to deal with and to get right.
I want to go back to a point I raised earlier on with respect to undercount and overcount.
I asked each of them to give me a name or two of somebody who could be Census Bureau Director, and several of them submitted your name.
It sent up real alarm signals, and it should. It did for us, and it certainly should for you.
The mayor of Philadelphia indicated the cost, the loss to Philadelphia and Pennsylvania for every person not counted was actually very large...
We rely on Inspector General reports. In this Committee especially, we rely on the work of the Government Accountability Office.
Two words, my friend. Two words you need to think about: Census Director.
We are delighted that you are before us today.
They spoke of the need for partnerships, of the need for a strong media campaign to raise awareness of the census.
Those three items keep coming back to us again and again and again.
I thought he did a good job answering those three questions.
I would just lay that at your feet.
A big part of the problem that we got into with the Census Bureau has been our inability to manage well a large technology contract.
During my last year when I was governor of Delaware, States were involved in a big lawsuit against the tobacco industry.
Dr. Groves, your nomination, as you know, comes at a critical time for the Census Bureau.
we received the letter to the Committee signed by all the former Directors of the Census for 30 years or so.
We opened our hearing in Philadelphia on Monday with a wonderful video prepared by the Census Bureau...
We continue to change the nature of what we are looking for a contractor to provide.
