Elijah Cummings actually said...

I will never forget, when I first became chairman, the first thing that The New York Times asked me was, what is your No. 1 priority. I told them the census, because it affects so much.

Context

Cummings emphasizes the importance of the census as his top priority.

03/13/2019

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