I believe we are at a critical juncture. I don't think it is overstating things to say that the 2010 Census is approaching a state of emergency.

Last month, I sent a letter to President Obama urging him to nominate a new Director as soon as possible.

I support it. Most critical decisions for the Census occur between 3 to 5 years before that Census.

We maybe ought to give serious consideration to whoever is going to be serving as our Census Bureau Directors in the future.

I pressed this morning on the President's nominee for Commerce.

They should hire a workforce that is ethnically and racially diverse and represents the hard-to-count and minority community populations.

I think you could be effective with either scenario. I think what is most important, though, is to get the right leadership and the right management processes in place.

These Race and Ethnic Advisory Committees are really very important, because they have members who come from diverse minority communities and work very well together.

Transparency is key. It helps ensure that the Census is on track.

I used to be a politician, but now I am a statesman.

The extra $300,000 stays in the State, can be used for other DelDOT projects.

All right. The Administration's fiscal year 2010 budget doesn't propose increasing recruitment and hiring of Census takers for non-response follow-up as Congress envisioned in approving extra funds for the Census in the stimulus package.

I think your response was, well, right now, let us just do what we said we were going to do and do that well.

Well, it sounds to me like part of what you all have said, a number of you said, one, make sure that--the key here is to try to reduce the number of people that aren't responding.

To the extent that we can get the money back, we need to do that.

If that goes well, we hope to be able to do the same kind of thing in Medicaid.

we are going to be very aggressive about seeing that gets prosecuted, as aggressive as we can possibly be if the facts support those kinds of things.

there is nothing that is more effective, maybe, than cuffing somebody that has been behaving, not just badly, but criminally.