Unfortunately, significant questions remain about the cost of the 2020 census and this administration's commitment to ensuring an accurate count.

How finding out if a person is a citizen is going to protect the Voting Rights Act is beyond me.

This is something that has troubled elected officials for a while.

Why are we asking these questions? What is it that we hope to gain unless we are going to use it for something good?

Among the many NOAA programs the administration wants to eliminate are the National Sea Grant Program and the Educational Partnership Program with Minority Serving Institutions.

The addition of a citizenship question to the decennial census without justification or testing is deeply troubling.

it took such a long time for things to get going. And some of the excuses they were giving was that Puerto Rico was an island.

I cannot support this administration's budget request for NOAA, as it represents a clear abdication of the agency's core mission.

Including such a question would drive response rates down in minority and immigrant communities, increasing costs and harming accuracy.

I was very disappointed to see yesterday that the Republican party campaign to reelect the President put out an appalling email specifically noting that the President wants a new citizenship question added to the census.

That makes it look to anyone like being born in one of these places makes you a citizen different than being born in the United States.

I don't believe in the boycott because we worked too hard to get people to believe in the census.