Sean Patrick Maloney: “I am pleased today that the President nominated Dr. Kenneth Prewitt to be the next director of the Bureau of the Census.…”

“I am pleased today that the President nominated Dr. Kenneth Prewitt to be the next director of the Bureau of the Census. Dr. Prewitt is the current president of the Social Science Research Council. He has been senior vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation, the director of the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Corporation, chairman of the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago, and vice president of the American Academy of Arts and sciences. He has also served on the boards of trustees of Washington University, Southern Methodist University, the Center for Advanced Study and Behavioral Sciences, National Opinion Research Corporation, and the German American Academic Council. He has a long and distinguished career as an administrator and researcher with publications too numerous to mention. He is highly regarded by his colleagues for his scholarship and professionalism. Mr. Speaker, I was very disappointed that the chairman of the Subcommittee on the Census chose to attack Dr. Prewitt just hours after he was nominated.”