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
A stalled vehicle on the ramp on first street to get on to 880 on the northbound lane so that might be something that may be a traffic hazard but aside from that were doing okay on that end. East bay drive times looking good. Northbound 880 from marina to broadway only nine minutes. Westbound 580 from estudillo avenue and from fish ranch road to the bay bridge only seven minutes. Ill have another update. Back to you. Sounds good. Thanks so much. With covid cases surging the bay area is on the verge of a new stayathome order. While some states launched new efforts to stop the spread, president elect biden is outlining how hell fight coronavirus. We have live team coverage. Today in the bays bob redell is following statewide restrictions. First, tracie potts is outlining the plan from the biden team and, tracie, what is Vice President elect harris saying about young people even returning to the classroom . Reporter she says they need to do it but they need to do it safely. Its part of wh
But sometimes the bolt that connects the rod to the van itself can just snap off without any warning at all. Whats her name, man . Announcer its a late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight beg your pardon. Plus, stephen welcomes kate winslet and Michael Eric Dyson featuring jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan Theater Office building in new york city, its Stephen Colbert stephen welcome. Welcome to a late show. Ladies and gentlemen, im your host, Stephen Colbert. Tomorrow marks one month since the election, and the president has spent that entire time throwing a loud, pantsfilling tantrum. If we dont change president s soon, hes going to get a rash. Ill tell you all about it in tonights installment of our neverending segment. Dump dump dump illegal massive dumps im a dope, proud boyeeee the road from the white house stephen wooo the president s complaints about fake Election Fraud are more than just recreational whining. In fact, his refusal to concede i
I am proud to say it led to the first bipartisan package in decades. It took time and a willingness to acknowledge that no party has a monopoly on good ideas. M proud of what we are what we created together. Although we were already holding these hearings in our committee, we require that others hold them also so that all members have a chance to be heard in front of congress. Hopefully, more good ideas have the chance to see a light of day. I couldnt ask for a better partner than our Ranking Member, tom cole. We come from different parties, but we share the same dedication to this institution. What this is really all about, a wellfunctioning house allows us to tackle the issues that can make a positive difference in peoples lives and that is why we already for prep congress and the first place. Before i turn to our ranking on the job to for the house of new parliament parliamentian. Mr. Jason smith. Mr. Cole and i have said a lot about him to his predecessor. And he and his predecesso