Tom Carper: “We opened our hearing in Philadelphia on Monday with a wonderful video prepared by the Census Bureau...”

We are better off when we hear community concerns at the beginning of the process rather than at the end.

We will do it again. Maybe the next time we will actually make it to Columbia.

Public engagement can build trust, it can increase public buy-in, can help resolve issues, can help prevent litigation, and ultimately it can save time and money.

We help make the rules for the country, and we do not do this by ourselves.