[inaudible conversations] without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess for the committee at any time. With that i will now recognize myself to give an Opening Statement and mr. Gomez will follow me with a minute in the same will be given to the Ranking Member. Good morning, thank you to everyone for being here today to discuss a topic which is vital to our democracy for this census. The 2020 census is imminent and accounting set to begin in alaska in less than two weeks and across the country on april 1. The constitution requires every person to be counted, every Single Person living in the United States of america, not just citizens, not just people of a particular Political Party or race but absolutely everyone. I am gravely concerned that the Census Bureau may not be prepared to meet this high bar and that the 2020 census could leave communities across the country undercounted, underrepresented and underfunded. The Government Accountability office and apartment of c
You for all of you are watching by live stream. As the 2020 Campaign Ramps up, both democrats and republicans are working very hard to rally their base. They are also trying to win over swing voters but i think we all know and we will specially see today, that it is by far the largest bloc of voters out there, 100 million voters are the voting age adults who dont go to the polls. I cant say enough, that the balance of power in the United States rest in those voters. These nonvoters span every demographic. Every racial demographic, age demographic, education demographic. Today we are going to have, a very enlightening panel discussion, discussing with Party Leaders themselves, how they plan to appeal to this group and get some of these people to come to the polls. Were also also going to discuss the very interesting results of this night study that is being studied today. And we have all been anticipating for a long time. I want to encourage you all, as you follow our discussion to also
That. Good morning, houston. The weather is great and the sun is shining and is going to be a great day for Mike Bloomberg. I have the pleasure of introducing mike and i want to acknowledge again our commissioner aid dry and garcia. Give it up again to commissioner commercial aid dry and garcia. Thank you for allowing me to be your mayor and let me just ta say, what is important to mayors getting things done because what is important to you is what happens at your home, on your streets and your community and in your city. And Mike Bloomberg was the mayor of new york city for 12 years, for 12 years. And then what we know as mayors, you can talk a good game but at the end of the day, people want, people want results. They want things to happen that is positive and impactful in their lives and want to make sure when it comes to infrastructure we are making those things take place. They want job creation and what i looked at what Mike Bloomberg did in new york for 12 years and creation of
Were in iowa and New Hampshire this weekend. You can follow our coverage on the web at cspan. Org, and we want to check in with reporters in the early primary and caucus states. We also want to hear from you. We have a line set aside for those who live in South Carolina, iowa, and New Hampshire, and you can begin aling, 202748000 for democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488002 for independents. Again, we want to hear from those in iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. Joining us on the phone is james, political reporter with the post and courier in South Carolina. And i want to put on the screen some new numbers, courtesy of real clear politics. It shows you the state of the race in South Carolina. Again, this is a summary of all of the most recent polls with former Vice President joe biden at 32 . Senator Bernie Sanders at 15 . Hes closely followed by senator Elizabeth Warren, tom steyer at 8 , and former mayor pete buge ajudge. Those numbers have been pretty consistent over
Joining us on the phone is james, political reporter with post and courier. I want to put on the screen new the stateat show you of the race in South Carolina. Of the a summary of all most recent polls with former Vice President joe biden at 32 , senator Bernie Sanders at 15 , followed by senator Elizabeth Warren, tom steyer at 8 , and Pete Buttigieg at 6 . These numbers have been consistent over the last few months. Why . Former Vice President has had a very durable base of support in South Carolina. He is by far the best known of the candidates. He is viewed favorably by black voters of South Carolina who of the the majority democratic electorate in South Carolina, 61 in 2016. It is partly because of his association with president obama, the Vice President , partly because he has been coming to South Carolina for many years he has been very popular with that group of folks and it has been hard for the other candidates to try and chip away at it. They have all been competing for secon