Xavier Becerra: “I must say that I continue to have the greatest of concerns with regard to the work on the census. I see no reason why…”

“I must say that I continue to have the greatest of concerns with regard to the work on the census. I see no reason why we could not have sent this directly to the President and said, Mr. President, tell us what the experts say we should do with regard to a count of the citizens and the residents of this country when it comes to the year 2000. Let us not inject politics into this, and let us go straight with what the experts say would be best to do for this country, because we know in the past we have left many Americans uncounted. We had an opportunity to do that, but we failed. We failed miserably because the politics got in the way, and this legislation is apparently the best we could expect.”