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.

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.

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.

One of the challenges of the Census Bureau is to build up recognition and trust and information and familiarity with the American Community Survey.

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

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

We are going to focus in this Subcommittee and our Committee, at least from my perspective, on how do we get better results for less money or better results for the same amount of money.

I must admit the news of your decision to leave this post as Director of the Census Bureau is bittersweet.

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

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

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.

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

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

I believe, and have learned in my brief tenure here, that we cannot continue to do the things that we have always been doing, to the detriment of the American taxpayer.

I held at G.W. a data fair.

Good, thank you. I appreciate that.

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

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.

This hearing will examine lessons learned from the 2010 census, while identifying issues that show promise for producing an even more accurate and hopefully more cost-effective census in 2020.

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 think there were over a thousand partners for the decennial census who would be trusted.

It gives more interactiveness as opposed to even a letter or a form in the mail.

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

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 the way you worked that in there.