"I think that is in some legislation that the House is considering."
"I think maybe in each of those instances, certainly in IRS, the Department of Treasury, you have a Commissioner serving a 5-year term and the head of the Department is a political appointee who may no..."
"I think there would need to be some safeguards in place, with the Census, it is important to have impartial data."
"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 just think that, however it is structured, it should have the freedom to make independent programmatic decisions."
"the Secretary of Commerce wasn't very mindful of those responsibilities, his oversight responsibilities in terms of providing directional leadership for the Bureau of the Census."
"I think your response was, well, right now, let us just do what we said we were going to do and do that well."
"We really need to look at what other approaches are out there that can either get better results or at least control the costs better."
"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?"
"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."
"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 fo..."
"That is a very good point."