"Perceptions that the results of the 2020 census have been manipulated for political purposes will greatly erode public and stakeholder confidence not only in the 2020 census but in our democracy."
"Many people have opined already that the president's memorandum is unlawful and unconstitutional."
"You know, fundamentally, you can't run a country if you don't know how many people are in your country, and that is the purpose of the census, plain and simple."
"This is a patriotic exercise that we engage in every 10 years to know who is in our country, how many people, so we know how to provide services and resources and function as a country."
"This isn't about political power grabs. This is about doing what makes common sense and what our Constitution calls upon us to do every 10 years."
"I don't want to belabor what the president has done because it is very clear... that what the president has proposed most recently is not only unconstitutional, it is completely unworkable."
"the politics need to be kept away from this space."
"Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you, Dr. Dillingham."
"I think it could undermine the census."
"I want to thank the panel for all your work and obviously for your testimony today."
"You don't have to sacrifice safety to achieve the speed that you've undertaken right now."
"I think you're describing how this pandemic may be completely changing up the way vaccines are produced and approved and tested and so forth, for life after the pandemic."