Tom Carper

How would the loss of the American Community Survey affect the cost and the scope of planning for the 2020 census?

I held at G.W. a data fair.

I think building the sort of partnerships that Dr. Reamer had mentioned becomes essential because people need to understand and see that there is something concrete that they get out of their participation.

Any ideas? And this would be a question for you and maybe for other panelists as well.

If I could come back to Dr. Baker, for the 2010 census, the Bureau dropped plans to use the Internet as a method for collecting data.

I believe that with the Subcommittee's guidance, the Census Bureau can find an approach that results in constituents experiencing a proper balance between an individual's rights and duty to community and Nation.

If Congress decides, OK, I am going to give you guys more leeway, that means you have got to provide greater transparency.

Something you just said. A question I often ask myself, even in government, who is our customer?

You could not run the country without the decennial census.

The Census is geographically grounded because it is used for apportionment, but often people are unaware that locally within the State it is also used for recalculating voting districts.

I think that one flaw in 2020 planning to date is that the role of the ACS has not been fully fleshed out.

Well, God willing and the voters of Delaware are willing, you will have it, and your successor will have it as well.

Good, thank you. I appreciate that.

Fair winds and a following sea. And whenever people, in the Navy, do something especially good, well done, we say, bravo zulu.

I do not know how long I will be around here; that is really up to the people of Delaware, but for however long, I am here.

Would you have it be done over the Internet?

I used to describe the States as 50 laboratories of democracy.

It is crystal clear, in Article 1, Section 2, that the census will be done in a manner that by law Congress shall direct.

I like to tell the story about listening on my way from my home to the train station last fall.

If the American Community Survey is de-funded or made voluntary, how would these changes impact planning, designing, and executing the next decennial census?

Leadership has been the key.

They need not just to cut, cut, cut. They need to find ways to get better results for less money.

I think we need to do on another side of our jurisdiction is work with the Postal Service.

So everybody pretty much agrees on that?

We get very high ranks on people believing what they are doing is important. That is a good thing for a public servant to have that.