A senior White House official announced last week that the director of the Census Bureau will report directly to the White House from now on, rather than to the Commerce Secretary. This is in response to complaints by black and Hispanic leaders about Commerce Secretary nominee Judd Gregg.
The Census information is used for many things, among them congressional redistricting and government spending allocations for virtually everything.
It is important that the Census be scientifically driven and as free from politics as possible. Seven former Census directors -- serving every president from Nixon to George W. Bush -- to sign a letter last year supporting a bill to turn the Census Bureau into an independent agency after the 2010 Census.
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