It has taken the bureau ten years of careful planning and preparation to make this census successful, but there is still much more work to be done. The census begins in january of 2020 in remote alaska and then in march everywhere else and between now and then the bureau has to finalize its communications campaign, conduct Robust Community outreach, finish hiring trusted local staff and perform final testing for dozens of critical i. T. Systems. As outlined in our constitution, the purpose of the census is to count every person in the country, but given the chaos and the confusion and the administration has generated as a result to include an untested citizenship question, the bureau has significant work to do to restore public trust in the census and to ensure that the Response Rates do not decline as a result. We need to make sure that everyone is able to respond to the census though the new online form or in whatever way they can including people without good internet access. People
Humanitarian crisis at home, international involvement, and the effort to restore democracy. This is an hour. Thank you to the press club. It is an honor for me to be here to discuss the venezuelan crisis and have a q and a session with all of you. Before going forward, i would like to give you details on how i got here. Born in venezuela but in a small town, far away from the capital. A small village and i had the opportunity to go to a Public School in venezuela. I went to caracas because they didnt have a university in my small town. And had anolarship opportunity to come to the states. At 14, i was demonstrating on the streets, proclaiming venezuelan rights and in a certain way, warning to the venezuelans and the International Community that we were facing a dictatorship and in 2014, the regime decided to issue an order of arrest against me. Only for defending venezuelan rights. After that, i spend more than 100 days in hiding inside of venezuela. They were trying to capture me. Vi
Ambassador Vardhan Shringla here to give remarks today. I am going to start with a few housekeeping items to introduce the ambassador, 1520 minutes and then move to a moderated discussion including getting q a from the audience. We would like to leave some time to make this interactive discussion. We do have some heritage products in the us relationship. This has been a big priority for the Heritage Foundation, for myself, for the Us Government and released navigating differences and consolidated which look at the reelection reviewed some of the progress, some of the remarkable progress made in the first term and what we can expect in terms of opportunities and also challenges. Here at heritage we will be organizing a big conference on india us relations, partnership with the Research Foundation and independent think tank and stay tuned, several members of congress under parliament from india, expecting a big impact for that conference. And also, india us israel trilateral Strategic Di
Extend it to the entire population. The idea of medicare for all is the government would pay all the Nations Health bills and everybody would have coverage. A public option would create a government type program like medicare, like medicaid and make it more available. Now you have to meet certain qualifications to get into any of the government provided health programs. The public option would make it easy for people to get into paid health care. Host for the democrats were debate on these issues why are they so fervently advocating . Whats wrong with the Current System to them . Guest everybody agrees, republicans do, the Current System is not working. People are paying too much. Most people have insurance but a substantial number of people still do not. A lot of people who do have insurance literally cant afford to use their interest because they have multithousand dollars deductibles. Everybody agrees we need to fix whats broken at how you do that. Democrats generally agree that eve
Witness estimates with senator peters. Thank you, mr. Chairman. The 2020 census will serve as a road map for the next decade, determining how billions of dollars of federal resources and representation will be divided among the states and it will undoubtedly impact every community in america and every person must be counted. An accurate count isnt just about understanding how many people live in our country. This is about ensuring that communities across america have access to the resources that they need to grow and to succeed. Public Health Officials use census data to direct resources to combatting the Opioid Crisis and other health emergencies. First responders and Disaster Relief agencies used this data to determine where they should direct Emergency Response efforts. Local businesses also use census data to help decide where to invest in new factories and stores and in my home state of michigan, 29 billion in annual federal funding is on the line. For every person not counted, mi