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The House Oversight and Reform Committee examined President Trump’s efforts to not count undocumented immigrants in the 2020 Census. Committee members questioned witnesses, who included four…

Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power delivered keynote remarks at an event hosted by the American Academy of Political and Social Science. She discussed the state of democracy a…

A hearing was held on apportionment and citizenship, titled “Counting the Vote: Should Only U.S. Citizens Be Included in Apportioning Our Elected Representatives?” The committee first heard…

Mr. Prewitt and Representative Ford spoke to educators about a number of issues related to higher education. Mr. Prewitt talked about the results of the 2000 Census and diversity in higher e…

Mr. Prewitt talked about the recent release of the census numbers and how the new numbers would affect reapportionment of House seats in several states. He responded to audience phone calls,…

Officials released the first set of census numbers; the resident population and Congressional appointment totals for each state. They explained that the resulting reapportionment would add C…

Officials briefed reporters about final response rates for the 2000 census. They said that the national average of 67 percent was greater than expected and had reversed a trend toward declin…

At a discussion on the 2000 census Latinos and Civil Rights forum, part of a conference hosted by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, panelists talked about sampling data compiled b…

Census Bureau Director Kenneth Prewitt talked with reporters about the progress of the 2000 Census and tabulations that have been done so far. After his prepared remarks he answered question…

Committee members heard testimony from Mr. Prewitt on how the Census Bureau has been handling the follow-up for the households that did not return the census forms that were sent to them…

Participants discussed the current results of the 2000 census. They talked about the expected errors that occur because of the uncounted as well as multiple counted households. Director Prew…

Committee members hear testimony from Mr. Prewitt about the efforts of the Census Bureau to follow up and contact the households from which no Census form was recieved.

Committee members heard testimony on follow-up efforts to contact households that did not return their Census form and other Census related matters. They also congratulated themselves on…

Kenneth Prewitt, director of the U.S Census Bureau, talked about the second phase of Census 2000: enumerators going door to door to count people. He discussed why it necessary to perform thi…

As a kickoff to Census training, Kenneth Prewitt, Director of the Census Bureau, spoke to enumerators about the challenges ahead. He said that they would have to overcome suspicions about co…

Witnesses testified about return rates on mail-in Census forms and about efforts to achieve an accurate count. Among the issues they addressed were privacy concerns raised by long form recip…

Mr. Prewitt spoke to reporters about the status of Census 2000 operations. He said that the mail-in return rate was 55 percent nationally, with the lowest returns in the South. He said that …

Mr. Prewitt discussed Census operations and history, and explained why the Census was mandated in the Constitution. He also responded to viewer calls, faxes, and electronic mail.

Committee members heard testimony on Census Bureau operations and activities in taking the 2000 census. They talked about progress made thus far, as well as an error in which unnecessary …

At the Winter meeting of the National Congress of American Indians speakers included congressional staffers, Agriculture Secretary, Dan Glickman, U.S. Census Bureau Director, Kenneth Prewitt…