of an advance letter. census bureau robert groves told me those advance letters drive up participation rate percentage point by percentage point. every one percentage point for us means that we save $85 million of salary costs of sending people out to follow up on those nonresponses. if we get five percentage point gain out of this advanced letter, we re in the $500 million range of savings. reporter: federal auditors have found a number of cost overruns associated with the effort. for example, in the major effort made between march and july of last year to verify addresses, a process known as address canvassing, the census bureau ran 25% over budget exceeding its $356 million for that operation by about $88 million. bill? bill: so the point is, in the end this controls congress reporter: it does. bill: and in a lot of ways determines districts?
reporter: it does, and that s why you re seeing a major effort to determine control of the local state houses as well because when these numbers get submitted next year, it ll be those state houses that carve up the districts. bill good point. james, thanks for that. james rosen on census 2010 for us. or 2010, whichever you like. see ya, james. uma: was his toyota out of control, or is he the next balloon boy? a government agency now casting doubt on one man s story that his prius went haywire. bill also, a couple s been sent to jail, this couple right here. their crime? nothing more than a kiss, so they say. i m at the doctor getting my shoulder looked at.
your party doesn t seem to care what happens and the reason these guys don t want to vote for the bill is because the people in their districts don t want it. and talk about videotape, we have plenty of videotape, already. of democrats trying to rail it through ram it through, that will be used in ads going forward and we don t need any more video in the districts. andrea, it is because you wake me up every monday, is the reason i love to be on with you, but let me make this point there will not be a single democratic congressman who loses solely because of health care. that is a bit by the time nef comes around it will not be an issue. that is positively bob you better cross your fingers, and pray to god. uma: thank you, guys. so unlikely. i ll pray for other things, don t have to worry about praying for that. uma: great to have you both for what always promises to be a wonderful debate, between the two of you. thanks. thank you. bill: they like each other an off. lo
original house version stayed the same and you account for those people who have decided that they are, that will change their vote and particularly people who voted yes for it in the house version and are threatening to vote no in the senate, we would end up with 211-220. that s if it were right now based upon how votes were cast a long time ago. that is not enough to pass the bill which would derail the entire process. nancy pelosi says she s going to get the votes when the time comes. they ve got a week to do it, and you can bet that the promises are flying behind closed doors. bill: you bet they are. reporter: and the arms are being twisted to the point of shoulder dislocation. [laughter] bill: find a sling. i predict a long weekend. over the past year we ve had at least six different weeks that were make or break on health care reform. is this it? is this fourth town for the insurance overhaul? down for the insurance overhaul? foxnews.com, kind of a cheat sheet to help you und