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Obama Wants Control of the Census
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Census Count to be Controlled by the Obama
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White House control over census worries Utah
GOP
Utah's Republican members of Congress are none too happy about a plan that
would have the Census Bureau report to White House chief of staff Rahm
Emanuel, the former head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Utah lost out on a fourth House seat after the 2000 Census by a few
hundred people and argued unsuccessfully all the way to the U.S. Supreme
Court that the bureau should have counted Mormon missionaries from Utah
serving abroad.
That legal fight has made Utah officials wary of the 2010 Census, and news
out of the White House that the director of the Census Bureau will work
under Emanuel has deepened that concern.
"The political land grab is stunning," said freshman Rep. Jason Chaffetz,
R-Utah. The census "is not intended to be political in any way shape or
form. … We're not even 15 days into this administration and they're already
working on the next campaign."
Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, echoed those concerns, saying neither the
Constitution nor Congress has delegated census power to the White House
chief of staff.
"It would politicize the process much more than it needs to be, and it
shouldn't happen," Bishop said. "It takes something that is supposedly
apolitical like the census, and gives it to a guy who is infamously
political."
The White House move to place the census under more direct control comes
after black and Latino advocacy groups argued that President Barack Obama's
nominee for Commerce secretary, Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., has opposed
increased funding for the census and is against sampling.
Sampling uses mathematical formulas to gauge population estimates instead of
house-to-house counts. The method, typically opposed by conservatives and
supported by liberals, is regarded by some mathematicians as a more accurate
method to ensure some populations, such as immigrants, are counted.
Detractors of sampling say the Constitution is clear that every person must
be counted, which rules out such a method.
The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials also
argued that Gregg's record of fighting budget boosts for the 2000 Census is
of concern.
"With Census 2010 less than a year and a half away, it is critical that the
Census Bureau move forward effectively with its planning, enumeration and
outreach activities," NALEO said. "This cannot happen unless the secretary
of commerce demonstrates strong leadership and full support for the bureau's
important work."
The White House denies any intention to politicize the census, saying that
Obama has wanted to re-evaluate the program since his election.
"There is historic precedent for the director of the census, who works for
the commerce secretary and the president, to work closely with White House
senior management, given the number of decisions that will have to be put
before the president," spokesman Ben LaBolt said. "We plan to return to that
model in this administration."
02/07/2009 By Thomas Burr The Salt Lake Tribune
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