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Commerce Secretary Ross is facing questions from the House Oversight Committee today about his involvement in the addition of a citizenship question on the census. We obtained his 2017 calendars, which included several meetings about the 2020 census: americanoversight.org/document/comme…
His calendars also show multiple meetings with industry groups that raise concerns about potential conflicts of interest — including a meeting with a natural gas exporter linked to a company Ross made a profit from: americanoversight.org/inside-the-doc…
Our investigation of his complex web of financial holdings has revealed a number of serious ethics issues and potential conflicts of interest.
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