James Lankford

There has been great conversation in the last several years about the questions that are included or not included.

Right. And you made extensive comments about cybersecurity issues and vulnerabilities.

So going back to something Ms. Cha mentioned before, in 2010 we had a $3 billion process of innovation.

So the assumption is that we would have a master list of every address in the United States...

Thank you. We will open it up for questions here, and we will get a chance to go through as much as we can.

OK. So by the end of 2016, you will be able to have articulated a plan for that, for identifying the homeless and then doing a count there?

Do you think it is higher or lower? Just a ballpark on that.

Is there a difference in the American Community Survey and the cost per person in that piece versus the every-10-year-Census piece, cost per person?

Is there a way to be able to save unit cost, that the unit cost goes down?

We had an extensive conversation here at this same Committee room just a couple of weeks ago about the Death Master File (DMF).

I am trying to figure out how do we get below $100 apiece to be able to ask a set of questions

Let me be clear about a couple things. In 2017, we will be submitting the topics that we plan to ask on both the Census and the American Community Survey to the Congress.

The Constitution requires that everybody be counted, and so that is the gold standard.

Which particular data sets do you want to be able to use?

Again, we have to plan on funding. If that is going to be a funding issue in the days ahead, dealing with higher education and court costs, we need to know.

Is there an estimate in your budget somewhere that I'm missing of the cost of developing and sustaining this ratings program?

My hope is that it doesn't set the not-for-profits up for failure by capping the amount for loan servicing for the multiple companies that are doing it.

Any work that can be done to simplify that form I think is extremely important, for multiple reasons.

There is a tremendous asset to being able to help those students because there are some very unique environments there.

I appreciate your cooperation in trying to get a complete replacement of this so you do not have to deal with the constant waiver battles back and forth.

So this basically sets up Americans to fail at this point, or it sets them up to where they are going to have to file multiple forms through the year to be able to update pay.

The Kaiser Family Foundation has done a tremendous amount of research on all this and has done a very good job of getting the background.

The law prohibits employers from reimbursing or otherwise providing financial support to employees to help them pay for an individually purchased plan for these smaller businesses and individuals.

And I would say that is a prime aspect of this Committee, is to be able to determine where we are stuck, let us know what we need to do so we can get it unstuck.

Thank you. Commissioner, it is good to see you again. Thanks for the work you are trying to do for the American people and all that is going on.