questions. they would give you some sort of insight. you had some sense they had some connection to the president and you were hearing the president s thoughts and ideas and plans through them. to erin s point, you get a lot of i can t take that question. i haven t spoken to the president about that. there s a lot of non-answering. there s a lot of reporters doing their job asking questions so their bosses are pleased and a lot of non-responses. for any spokesman in this administration you re printing out leaflets and standing on the street corner to hand out the daily message of the administration while your boss is driving an ice cream truck around you with a loud speaker screaming the former president tapped my phones. there s no way you can compete with that message or that messeng messenger. since you don t know what he s about to say, you re just sort of guessing. this is the worst job in washington. you have to spend all day long
congress. he earned himself the name dr. no. it was fitting. he was constantly trying to root out corruption and waste. there is so much of it. we talked about this. are you shocked about the report? i think we would be shocked if an agency of this size is running efficiently. watching accountability process, and hearings on capitol hill. to hear secretary jeh johnson appear and not answer a single question straightforwardly directly, what do you make of that? why do we tolerate such responses from our executive department? or non-responses as you re talking about. he is either in a position he doesn t know, which is horrible. or he doesn t want to tell us which is equally as horrible. i want to yield my time to andrea. i have a question for you about the whole process. i m reading republicans are saying, and they have had to see the report, they are not going to defund any part of the dhs with regard to the president s
is improve on the 67% return rate from the questionnaire from the last census. his bureau is spending $85 million on advanced letters like this one and postcard reminders because internal research shows ticklers drive up response rates 6 to 12%. every one percentage points for us mean we save $85 million of salary cost of sending people out to follow up on the non-responses. if we get five percentage point gain out of the advanced letter we are in the $500 million range of savings. but some cost overruns plagued the sen us the like past efforts when tens of thousands of workers fanned out between march and july of last year to verify addresses. process known as address canvassing. the sen us the bureau, federal auditors later found ran 25% overbudget for cost of $444 million. when i arrived in cu july, findings were emerging.
another method of prodding to you complete the 10 question questionnaire and mail it whack by april 1st advance letter alerting you the questionnaire is coming and postcard reminder that it did come. robert groves told me those items cost $85 million but they can drive up participation rates by 6 to 12 percentage points. every one percentage point for us means that we save $85 million of salary cost of sending people out to follow up on those non-responses. if we get 5 percentage point gain out of this advanced letter, we are in the 500-million-dollar range of savings. federal auditors are already found a a number of cost overruns. the effort to verify addresses last year ran 25% over budget by $8 million. that, shep, is a whole lot of dora the explorer. shepard: it sure is the constitution requires it, the census. james, thank you. something that both republicans and democrats support in the health care battle. more preventative medicine or everybody says they do, anyway.