07/01/2010
https://www.congress.gov...
"In the past two years, it has shown that the census is vulnerable to political manipulation, when the citizenship question was added."
"The delay in hiring is caused by massive backlog in background checks."
"My first question is about a bill that I authored called the Census Idea Act, which would prevent arbitrary and capricious harmful questions from being added."
"I think it is important that we not only make sure that everyone is counted but we prevent any type of behavior that undermines the accuracy of the census."