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
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Approve. Member rajeo. Yes. And chair williams . Aye. All right, so we are adjourned. It is 4 33 p. M. Thank you, everyone, for sticking with us and well see you tomorrow. Thank you. Bye, everyone. See you tomorrow. The meeting is closed. Just want to notice we didnt have. Can you call the roll . Im going to read my script first. This is held by web x modifying requirements for inperson meetings during the coronavirus disease emergency. This committee will be convening remotely until the committee is authorized to meet in person. Public comments will be available on each item. Each will be allowed three minutes to speak. Comments during the Public Comment period are available by calling 14156550001. Again its 14156550001. Access code is 1469968636. Then pound and then pound again. When connected, youll hear the meeting discussion, but will be muted and in listening mode only. When the item of interest comes up, press star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Speak clearly and slowly and
Michael its been a while since ive been able to give good news, so i will take as much time as i can hear. It doesnt happen very often, but it did happen in july. Manufacturing data betterthanexpected, particularly in europe with of increase for most major economy. Spain leading the way at 53 point five. Italy at 51. 9, france, 52. 4. The euro zone as a whole comes in at 51. 8. All of those numbers for the most part above what they had been in june. These are sentiment indexes that suggest that look at the comparison between june and july. We dont know whether they really incorporate the rebound in cases. In the states, we saw a much better than expected ism unemployment number of 54. 2, which suggests that maybe it did not capture it, or manufacturers managed to keep going through the covid outbreak. We are just now seeing covid start to show up more in europe again. That is something to keep an eye on. Several surveys show that while overall moment to miss revving up, momentum is rev