These are tough things to deal with and to get right.

I cannot wait, if confirmed, to learn about the media campaign that is being designed right now.

We opened our hearing in Philadelphia on Monday with a wonderful video prepared by the Census Bureau...

we received the letter to the Committee signed by all the former Directors of the Census for 30 years or so.

Dr. Groves, your nomination, as you know, comes at a critical time for the Census Bureau.

During my last year when I was governor of Delaware, States were involved in a big lawsuit against the tobacco industry.

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.

I would just lay that at your feet.

I thought he did a good job answering those three questions.

Those three items keep coming back to us again and again and again.

They spoke of the need for partnerships, of the need for a strong media campaign to raise awareness of the census.

I think in some instances they may be moved to be more responsive, to participate more fully, with an appropriate appeal from our President or even from Mrs. Obama.

I want to follow up on the line of questioning that Senator Collins was pursuing at the end of her comments.

We continue to change the nature of what we are looking for a contractor to provide.

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.