"When you are losing $9.5 billion in the midst of a 10-year plan, isn't it a little difficult to say success?"
"I want to make sure that I am on the record again that I support the conversion to electronic vehicles."
"I believe, because of the carbon footprint that those vehicles alone are responsible for, that we have an obligation as a government to try to find a way to reduce emissions."
"Instead of cutting funding for the Bureau, as House Republicans have tried to do this year and years past, we need to make sure it has the resources it needs to conduct the planning and preparatory wo..."
"Instead of threatening to add a citizenship question to the Census, which experts have warned will depress participation, we should support the Census Bureau in fulfilling the clear mandate of countin..."
"The Census must be an independent, nonpolitical exercise conducted by statisticians and qualified professionals, not an arm of the political office of whichever administration happens to be in charge."
"The Census plays a critical role in our democracy, guaranteeing there will be a fair allocation of House seats in the country and House districts of equal population within each state."
"The Census is to count every person in the United States."
"It does not say 'American citizen.'"
"If you want to change that, you got to change the Constitution. You have got to amend the Constitution."
"Could those budget counts conceivably have an impact on your ability to do the enumeration you are required to do by the Constitution?"
"In March 2020, was there some kind of nationwide, in fact global, health tragedy that cost 1.2 million American lives?"