I would just lay that at your feet.

We rely on Inspector General reports. In this Committee especially, we rely on the work of the Government Accountability Office.

The mayor of Philadelphia indicated the cost, the loss to Philadelphia and Pennsylvania for every person not counted was actually very large.

It sent up real alarm signals, and it should. It did for us, and it certainly should for you.

I thought he did a good job answering those three questions.

Two words, my friend. Two words you need to think about: Census Director.

I asked each of them to give me a name or two of somebody who could be Census Bureau Director, and several of them submitted your name.

I want to go back to a point I raised earlier on with respect to undercount and overcount.

Those three items keep coming back to us again and again and again.

They spoke of the need for partnerships, of the need for a strong media campaign to raise awareness of the census.

These are tough things to deal with and to get right.