Perilous time for the 2020 census. Troubling, there were reports indicating career officials at the Census Bureau warned the trump about significant problems that will delay the delivery of census data to late january or early february. After these reports became public, the director of the census, dr. Steven billingham, issued a Public Statement confirming problems were found, but provided no details. These developments were particularly troubling because they were not reported to our committee before we write about them in the press or before the census director made his Public Statement. Committee has jurisdiction, but nobody from the Trump Administration informed us about these problems or delays. For these reasons, the committee wrote a letter to the Census Bureau november 19. We asked for documents career officials prepared describing these data problems and the resulting delays. We also requested documents repaired for the department of commerce, including the commerce secretary
The committee stands in recess for five minutes. Recognizesow congressman raskin. You are now recognized, congressman raskin. We cant hear you yet. Rep. Raskin can you hear me now, madam chair . We can, thank you. Rep. Raskin is there any statistical benefit in requiring bureau to deliver apportionment data by the end of the year despite having to ssuspend Field Operations for three months . [indiscernible] statement. With that as far as risk of accuracy of counts is concerned, the shorter amount of time the bureau has to produce quality data, the higher the risk that something is going to go wrong. Rep. Raskin do you agree the couldion to rush the count affect the accuracy of the data assembled . Yes, sir. From a Data Processing standpoint, it does have risk. 150 days was to have of Data Processing. 90 days and now it is 77 days. It puts pressure on them to both identify anomalies and address hey identify. Es t rep. Raskin am i visible now . I am being told i was not on. You are now v
Recognized. Weant here yet. Can you hear me now madam chairman. Yes we can hear you. Thank you so much. Is there any statistical benefit in requiring the borough to deliver a portion of data by the end of the year despite having to suspend Field Operations for three months . Shouldnt the bureau have had more time than usual to finish less . Rk than i concu with that statement. As far as rks of accuracy accounts. The shorter amount of time the bureau has to produce quality data, the higher the risk that something is going to go wrong. Its been a fewre degree the decision to rush the council could affect the quality and the accuracy of the dataur sampled . Subpoena. [inaudible] yes or from the Data Processing standpoint it does the initial plan from the Census Bureau this is precovid was to have 50 days of Data Processing. That went down to about 90 days. Now ten to 77 days. It does put more pressure on them to both be able to identify anomalies improperly be able to address those anomal
Kolanovic, just named number one in two categories, equity linked strategy and added to institutional researchers hall of fame. Its a big billing marko, welcome thank you, scott. Lets talk about where we are now and where we were when you made a big and important call back on march 24th, you said the following many taking into account the unprecedented monetary and fiscal measures being implemented as well unprecedented ambassador et sse over thepath month, our equity target is achievable in 2021 we sit about 4 away on the s p. It was a great call. I know our viewers want to know where you think were going now, though thank you, scott. So we are still broadly positive on the equities. As you said, we came a long way from march our price target right now is 360 for the s p 500. Obviously there is an important cat list so there is a relation based on the outcomes but broadly still positive what is it based on what can people take from this price target, which the team over at jpmorgan, w
Set the record straight on the administrations handling of covid19 with new documents that show the president s actions taken, and the very latest russiagate bombshell this week more than a dozen government issued phones belonging to members of Robert Muellers Team Including lisa page and andrew w eisman, has been wiped clean, entirely. Obstructing justice is against the law but will they pay a price . Congressman devon nunes investigates with us, also this hour the former super bowl championturned republican congressional candidate Burgess Owens is here on his race in utah and why he believes biden will be remembered as the democrat who lost the black vote et al that and a lot more as we look ahead right here right now on sunday morning futures. Maria but first this morning President Trump has added 20 names to his list of potentially Supreme Court nominees this week including three republican senators. Tom cotton from arkansas josh ho lly from missouri and my next guest the first gue