The committee will come to order. Without objection, chairs authorized to declare a recess at any time. Secretary ross is with us, hell be joining us momentarily. Ill recognize myself for an Opening Statement and then my friend from maryland. The census is constitutionally required. It is what insures that just as every vote should be counted, every person should be counted. This is a conditioned precedent for accurate redistricting and accurate reapportionment. The census is not only important for purposes of constituting our government, its also important for apportioning the resources and services of our government. So the census is vitally important for a number of reasons. It is also eminently predictable. There are a few things that can be foreseen quite like the census. It happens every ten years whether youre ready or not. So its incredibly important beginning with the fundamental truth of counting every one of our fellow citizens, and we know well in advance when its coming. S
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