These countries of the Northern Triangle are vulnerable to organized crime primarily because their States are just so anemic that they are not able in some cases to exert effective control over their territory, which is obviously a boon…

This is a political will question, and what you do not see is you do not see that on the side of the Guatemalan authorities.

currently, what are we detecting that we cannot address?

Is that something that we need to help with? Or is that something you all are in process with right now?

Let us try to fill that gap, because we have a long-term strategic issue on that.

What are you seeing as far as the rise and the fall of the number of individuals coming from Cuba trying to come into the United States?

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

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.

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?

There has been a lot of consternation in Oklahoma, and I would assume in other States as well, about the nature of how it is collected if you do not respond to it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is a constitutionally mandated operation, and we are grateful for the service.

Well, surely you can understand someone that shows up on your doorstep repetitively with a badge saying, 'I would like to ask you: What time do you leave for work? How many people are in your house? How many toilets do you have in your…

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

OK. So give me an example: By December?

We have a constitutional mandate for the actual Census every 10 years.

While we are in here trying to make sure that we are protected from a $3 billion error.

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

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