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Well, the new technology may have gotten in the way here of getting an accurate count of people, particularly undocumented people or people who are leery of responding to people who open the door, I mean.
I would like to have some explanation of these results.
This is always an important hearing. It's important. It's timely. I would say it's timely. I hope it's in time.
Well, let's hope you take into account the recent litigation. You cannot have censuses where some States have corrected this, other States haven't, and then go to the American people and say we have an accurate census.
I would hazard a guess that most Americans are not home in the middle of the day if they are fortunate enough to have a job or if they have children and they are in school.
But I want to ask questions about this what I am calling the enigma of the minorities, which always vex the census.
Well, my God, we have been doing this--we have had, you know, we either have had two-parent families where both go out to work or single-parent families where we hope somebody is working for a very long time, and the notion that we don't…
I do have to ask about what I believe is really a constitutional question, and that is prison gerrymandering, a huge distortion of the count...
The committee found--and here I am quoting--``a staffing crisis that poses perhaps the greatest threat to the agency.''
I have never seen Americans reply or respond to an election by going in huge numbers to the streets simply to protest the new President even before he has done anything.
Yes, Chairman McCain, they are. As I indicated in my statement, we stand actually more resolutely on the strength of that statement that we made on the 7th of October.
This cannot be and, indeed, is not just a military effort.
We believe that the effort that we have made to reach this agreement with Russia was the best way to effectively move toward ending the civil war.
We strongly support Prime Minister Abadi's leadership on reform and reconciliation.
Unless Russia takes immediate steps to end the assault on Aleppo... the United States will suspend U.S.-Russia bilateral engagement.
The actions of the Assad regime and Russia... risk fundamentally undermining this initiative.
We will not fully succeed in destroying Daesh until we resolve the civil war in Syria.