aiming to count everyone. ultimately, this will allow us to have an even more complete count of citizens than through asking the single question alone. >> so keeping him honest, that option was always open to the president, but it doesn't have the benefit -- and i'm putting that word in quotes -- of doing what numerous studies have shown, that it will depress the count in primarily hispanic majority democratic areas. as the census bureau itself warned last year, a citizenship question, quote, is very costly, harms the quality of the census count, and would use substantially less accurate citizenship data than are available from an administrative sources. so if the goal is to more accurately count people, the experts say the citizenship question is a bad idea. and just to remind you, article i section ii of the constitution is pretty clear on this laying out what the census should count and what the numbers should be used for. here's, quoting now from the constitution. representatives and direct taxes