Opportunity. How is it going . Doing well. It is great to have you here. Im really excited to show you around today and talk more about our work. This neighborhood is a community that policy built, and we are the survivors of that. We appreciate your visit today. How did you get involved in this kind of work . Im a country boy. I grew up grew up across the street from a farm. I am from appalachia. I wanted to challenge the teens and find ways to engage them. We wanted to be able to pull more people into that work and see them develop character and also have an opportunity for us to feel like we are a part of something. So you went to howard . I went to howard university. How is the pandemic changed what streaming out loud is doing, how you are approaching things . We are having Community Groups come to the farm, but we have had to rapidly organize on the ground to deliver food a to communities that could not get out and get to the store. We were able to work with food entrepreneurs to
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
The committee stands in recess for five minutes. Recognizesow congressman raskin. You are now recognized, congressman raskin. We cant hear you yet. Rep. Raskin can you hear me now, madam chair . We can, thank you. Rep. Raskin is there any statistical benefit in requiring bureau to deliver apportionment data by the end of the year despite having to ssuspend Field Operations for three months . [indiscernible] statement. With that as far as risk of accuracy of counts is concerned, the shorter amount of time the bureau has to produce quality data, the higher the risk that something is going to go wrong. Rep. Raskin do you agree the couldion to rush the count affect the accuracy of the data assembled . Yes, sir. From a Data Processing standpoint, it does have risk. 150 days was to have of Data Processing. 90 days and now it is 77 days. It puts pressure on them to both identify anomalies and address hey identify. Es t rep. Raskin am i visible now . I am being told i was not on. You are now v
Point of time more than a year ago. Things slowed down and right now there are some movements that we hope that this will put and for discourse because receipt we believe actually that gulf unity is very important for the security of the region for the stability of of the region and for for the sake of our people this needless crisis needs to. Now human Rights Groups are saying theyre worried wrangle refugees have been forced into a remote bangladeshi island government says the group of more than 1500 people will move to ease overcrowding in camps it says only those who are willing to move have actually gone but there are concerns of that being coercion involved more than a 1000000 rand guy who fled neighboring me and ma housed in the camps. U. S. President elect joe biden says the figures showing jobs growth in the country slowed last month are evidence that a Coronavirus Relief program is badly needed democrats and republicans in congress have been unable to reach a deal on this so f
Safe and conducting what we believe is essential work for the American People. Additional of Coronavirus Relief is on the minds of lots of our members. You have spoken to probably senator collins, senator romney and others meeting with democrats about a possible way forward. Proposal through a pelosi and speaker senator schumer last night. Let me tell you where i think we are. Leader mccarthy and i have been in discussions with the secretary of the treasury and the president s chief of staff to ascertain what the president would actually sign into law. I think we have a sense of what that is. A call we hadt in just a little while ago. We will send that out to all the offices and get some back to see how our members react to a proposal we can say for sure would be signed into law. I think the one think we agree on is we dont have time for messaging games. We dont have time for lengthy negotiations. The issue is do we want to get a result . I would like to remind everyone the way to get