Tom Carper actually said...

I was the founding vice chairman of that as governor at the time and we decided we would do a paid ad campaign.

I think that it is a very good idea to have a term appointment for the Director of the Census Bureau.

I just think that, however it is structured, it should have the freedom to make independent programmatic decisions.

We want to make sure that whoever is leading this operation has the resources to do the job as best we can.