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In May 2022, the House and Senate Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS) Appropriations Subcommittees held hearings featuring Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. At hearings held on May 11 and 12, select subcommittee members asked Commerce Secretary Raimondo, whose department includes the Census Bureau, questions regarding decennial census operations. Specifically, Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence (D-MI) asked about the results of the 2020 Census Post Enumeration Survey, which found statistically significant undercounts of minority populations. During the Senate CJS hearing, Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) expressed interest in methods that the Bureau uses to collect and analyze 2020 Census data and called for oversight hearings. (Read more)
Blogs
July 1, 2022 – STANDARD DEVIATIONS: U.S. House Approves LGBTQI+ Data Inclusion Act
June 29, 2022 – FY 2023 Census Funding Approved by House Appropriations Committee
June 23, 2022 – House Committee Passes Honest Census Communications Act (H.R. 5815)
Press Releases
May 2, 2022 – Census Data Experts and Users Urge Appropriators Provide $2 Billion to Fill Gaps in 2020 Data for Communities
April 7, 2022 – The Census Project’s Fiscal Year 2023 Funding Recommendation for the U.S. Census Bureau
December 2, 2021 – Broad Coalition of Census Experts and Data Users Urge Appropriators to Support Funding Anomaly for Census Bureau In Next CR
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