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
Breakneck sprint to election day just hours from now. President trump and former Vice President biden are battling those states. And lastminute votes they think theyll need to win. President Trump Holding five rallies in four states while joe biden is going all in for pennsylvania making three stops there. And a surprise visit to ohio. While election day isnt until tomorrow as we come on the air this election is already making history. More than 97 million americans have already voted early. Now thats record shattering and its more than two thirds of all the votes cast just four years ago. But it also means with so many ballots to count and some of the biggest battleground states not starting that process until tomorrow night, we may not know who won on wednesday morning. President trump is threatening to go to court to challenge that idea, falsely claiming that ballots that havent been counted tomorrow night shouldnt count at all. Now across the u. S. Tensions are running high and bui
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A Religious School in congress don. And it defending reproductive rights demonstrations in poland against the restrictions on abortion. Welcome to the program our top story exactly a week to go of course before the u. S. Election donald trump and joe biden are spending choose a crisscrossing the United States in an intense day of campaigning National Polls are giving democratic contender biden a solid lead but its a lot tighter in some of the battleground states that could decide the election the coronavirus pandemic of course continues to overshadow the campaign infections are surging with some states concerned about the lack of hospital beds nearly half a 1000000 cases of been confirmed in the past week alone with more than 225000 deaths since the pandemic began the progress of a rescue package through congress is also halted with democrats and republicans deadlocked over the details before heading to campaign in michigan trying to criticize former president braca bomb his response t