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House Dems to Subpoena Wilbur Ross over Census Citizenship Question

HeadlineApr 03, 2019

The Oversight Committee also voted Tuesday to subpoena Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross for documents related to the department’s decision to include a citizenship question in the 2020 census. Voting rights activists say the citizenship question will lead to a vast undercount in states with large immigrant communities, impacting everything from the redrawing of congressional maps to the allocation of federal funding. This is California congressmember and Oversight Committee member Katie Hill.

Rep. Katie Hill: “A recent study that was commissioned by the Census Bureau itself that shows that nearly half of participants in the study think that the census is used to identify people here without legal documentation, which, in and of itself, shows how unlikely they are to fully participate in the study.”

The Supreme Court is set to hear a case challenging the census citizenship question this month.

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