I think you could be effective with either scenario. I think what is most important, though, is to get the right leadership and the right management processes in place.

I support it. Most critical decisions for the Census occur between 3 to 5 years before that Census.

They should hire a workforce that is ethnically and racially diverse and represents the hard-to-count and minority community populations.

I used to be a politician, but now I am a statesman.

Well, it sounds to me like part of what you all have said, a number of you said, one, make sure that--the key here is to try to reduce the number of people that aren't responding.

I think there would need to be some safeguards in place, with the Census, it is important to have impartial data.

I think your response was, well, right now, let us just do what we said we were going to do and do that well.

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

All right. The Administration's fiscal year 2010 budget doesn't propose increasing recruitment and hiring of Census takers for non-response follow-up as Congress envisioned in approving extra funds for the Census in the stimulus package.

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

I agree that we need a Director of the Census Bureau as soon as possible.

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

I pressed this morning on the President's nominee for Commerce.

I want to make sure that when that new Director of the Bureau of the Census is identified, vetted, nominated, confirmed, goes to work, that he or she have a pretty good to-do list.

Given the cost of the Census in an era of unprecedented fiscal challenges, what are the cost drivers of the Census and how can the Bureau produce an accurate yet cost-effective Census?

Last month, I sent a letter to President Obama urging him to nominate a new Director as soon as possible.

I believe we are at a critical juncture. I don't think it is overstating things to say that the 2010 Census is approaching a state of emergency.

The importance of having an ad campaign and a well thought-out ad campaign.

I think that is in some legislation that the House is considering.

If you haven't started thinking about who you would like to have on the Census Bureau, start thinking about it right now.

The extra $300,000 stays in the State, can be used for other DelDOT projects.

We are up to about $72 billion worth of improper payments, mostly overpayments.

Well, I applaud those efforts and urge you to continue them.

The importance of the Single Audit process is, I think, magnified, rather than minimized, by the Recovery Act's emphasis on accountability.

To the extent that we can get the money back, we need to do that.