I hope that your knowledge and with Julie Menin and the Mayor and others we can come up with a toolkit that we can take back to Congress on how to reach out, how to get everybody counted because we are going to have to rely on ourselves in…

if you are not counted you are not represented.

It should unite us so that we are focused to saying no matter what you do, Mr. President--no matter what you do, Supreme Court, we are going to come together to make sure that justice and liberty continues in our land.

It is tremendously important, and I am delighted to join both of my colleagues, Carolyn Maloney and Alexandria Cortez-Ocasio.

I will confess, for the first time in my entire life I have not been successful in keeping families together.

Rarely in government do we have something that we all agree on that we know needs to be done and that we are united on.

the inclusion of the citizenship question, which we have all discussed.

Most of my constituents don't use the digital and they don't use the internet, and I am wondering how this coordinates and are we going to really get everybody counted.

We have to make sure that people understand that and feel that their information is safe.

Census data drives nearly $73 billion- as in B 09 dollars to New York City and state every single year.

Alexandria has really stepped up to the plate from the very beginning, from day one that she walked into the U.S. House of Representatives.

if we aren't counted then the just amount of money will not come to us.

I want to add my voice to those of the students that we regret that you will be retiring this year.

the Census forms the very foundation for our democracy, for our representation.

I am going to be very brief, because--and the reason why I wanted to make sure that I was here today is probably the most important time in the history of the United States of America since the passing of the Voting Rights Act and the…

the power really rests with the people. It is us that have to get into the streets and make sure, irrespective of what they are trying to do, we are going to make sure that everybody is counted.

it is clear in the law that Congress can dictate to the Census Bureau of how it is supposed to be run

We are fighting against a coordinated effort to rig our democracy for the next decade.