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On the recordMarch 3, 2010
Well, thank you very much. Last year, the Commerce--Justice made sure that we carved out $2 million for your office to help with the oversight, not to do it in a schoolmarmish way, but we need a lot of red alerts and alarms and--to know where, as you say, kind of like the dash--the lights on a dashboard--where are we in this process? We only have--we have such a mandated timeframe to do it right.
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Barbara Mikulski
Democratic · Maryland

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Mikulski emphasizes the importance of oversight and timely communication in the census process.

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