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10 Mar, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Biden's pick for the next deputy commerce secretary to help oversee the Census Bureau, Don Graves, plans to "rely on the deep expertise" of career staff, according to @dgravesjr's prepared statement for confirmation hearing starting at 10 a.m. ET.

STREAM: commerce.senate.gov/2021/3/nominat… If confirmed, I will put pe...
@dgravesjr 2. Here's the full text of @dgravesjr's prepared opening statement:
commerce.senate.gov/services/files…
3. "I will have questions about the census ... because we certainly think that that is a priority," said @commercedems Chair @SenatorCantwell, D-Wash.
4. Asked by Cantwell about the challenges that the census redistricting data delay are posing to states, Graves said: "I will absolutely work on that issue. I will also listen to the ... career experts ... & not allow politics to impact the accuracy and timeliness of the census."
5. @dgravesjr's confirmation hearing has ended. Any follow-up questions from Senate Commerce Committee members are due by March 24. That means a full Senate confirmation vote on Don Graves' nomination to be deputy commerce secretary could be held as early as late March.

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BREAKING: Alabama's the 2nd state to sue over the Census Bureau delaying the release of 2020 census redistricting data to run more quality checks. The state's also suing over use of differential privacy to keep people's info in anonymized data confidential
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2. This census case could be fast-tracked to #SCOTUS if this request by Alabama @AGSteveMarshall and Rep. @Robert_Aderholt, R-Ala., for a three-judge court is granted: THREE-JUDGE COURT REQUESTED...
3. The Justice Department declines to comment on Alabama’s latest census lawsuit, DOJ spokesperson Gail Montenegro says in an email.
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BREAKING: The 2020 census redistricting data, needed to redraw voting maps, is now expected by Sept. 30, a senior Democratic aide briefed by the Census Bureau tells NPR. The 6-month delay allows for more quality checks and could throw elections into chaos.
npr.org/2021/02/12/965…
2. This delay, first reported by @miwine & @emilybazelon of The New York Times, is expected to be publicly announced by the Census Bureau soon.

The census schedule has been dogged by COVID-19 and the Trump administration's interference.

(Sorry for 1st tweet's typo: *data are)
@miwine @emilybazelon 3. A Senate bill that formally extends the legal deadlines for 2020 census results — to 9/30 for redistricting data and 4/30 for apportionment counts — will be introduced soon, say Sen. @brianschatz (D-Hawaii), plus Sen. @lisamurkowski and @SenDanSullivan, both Alaska Republicans WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), Lis
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BREAKING: The 2020 census results used to determine each state’s share of votes in the House of Representatives and the Electoral College for the next 10 years are now expected to be released on April 30, Census Bureau official Kathleen Styles announced during @NCSLorg webinar
@NCSLorg 2. These first results from the 2020 census, now expected on April 30, are the latest state population counts used for congressional reapportionment. Styles said the release date for the redistricting data states need to redraw voting districts remains unclear.
@NCSLorg 3. Here's the Census Bureau's current schedule for putting together the 2020 census apportionment counts (NB: redistricting data's release data is still TBD)
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The first results from the Census Bureau's new Household Pulse Survey questions about the COVID-19 vaccines are in
2. Fewer than 1 in 10 adults in the U.S. have received a COVID-19 vaccine so far, the Census Bureau estimates
3. ICYMI, this month the Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey (the one the bureau's texting and emailing people about) started asking about people's plans to get a COVID-19 vaccine:
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27 Jan
You regular reminder that the 2020 census is not over yet — and the Biden administration is on track to have a permanent Cabinet-level official in place next month to oversee the release of the first set of numbers, which are expected in early March:
npr.org/2021/01/26/960…
2. The first census results to be released are the latest state population counts used to determine each state's share of votes in the House of Representatives and the Electoral College for the next 10 years. Those numbers were legally due on Dec. 31, but the pandemic...
3. ...and the Trump admin's last-minute schedule changes disrupted the Census Bureau's plans for quality checks that make sure no person living in the U.S. is counted more than once or in the wrong place.

The delay means redistricting will also likely be delayed.

Stay tuned.
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26 Jan
After Feb. 1, the Census Bureau is likely to have a new confirmed commerce secretary who intends to depoliticize the count and listen to its experts to ensure that 2020 census results are accurate.

My write-up of Gov. @GinaRaimondo’s confirmation hearing:
npr.org/2021/01/26/960…
@GinaRaimondo 2. If confirmed, Raimondo would oversee a Census Bureau that had been caught in a partisan firestorm during the Trump administration, when the expertise of civil servants was repeatedly overruled and undermined.

Raimondo is signaling a different approach:
@GinaRaimondo 3. Until today's hearing, Raimondo had not made a single public comment about the census since being named as President Biden's pick for commerce secretary — not at the Jan. 8 event where Biden introduced Raimondo and not in this:
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