I plan to introduce legislation this year that would, among other things, make the Director of the Census Bureau a Presidential term appoint...
Democracy is a hard enough system anyway, but it is important that we get the numbers right and the apportionment right.
Isn't that nice.
I applaud those efforts, and I applaud the Secretary, whom I am a big fan of.
OK. All right.
Senator Brown, 10 years from today, I suspect you will still be here, but I am not sure that I will be.
It turns out that the folks in the Department of Defense at the senior level in charge of overseeing acquisition... have huge turnover.
I like to say if it is not perfect, make it better. We have room for improvement.
We are having what I call a skirmish now in terms of what are we going to pass for a spending plan.
We want to ensure that we do the best job that we can.
I do not want the folks in this Committee to go through that. I do not want the Senate to go through that.
All right. Well, that is good to hear. That is good to hear.
All right. Good.
We need to look in every nook and cranny of our Federal Government in order to find ways to do a lot of the traditional things that we have ...
Today's hearing will examine the lessons learned from the 2010 Census while identifying initiatives that show promise for producing an even ...
That 22-percent figure should be compared in 2000 to 17 percent, so that is a move in the wrong direction.
We commend the Census Bureau for seeking the input of stakeholders such as ourselves and acting on several of our recommendations with regar...
If I were Dr. Groves, I would immerse myself in this planning process and make it the number one priority for the next several years.
