House Democrats Set To Grill Wilbur Ross On Census

By Allegra Kirkland

January 22, 2019 10:19 am

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has agreed to testify before the House Oversight Committee in March over the Trump administration’s controversial decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, the committee announced Tuesday.

Ross will be called to “provide complete and truthful answers to a wide range of questions, including questions regarding the ongoing preparations for the census, the addition of a citizenship question, and other topics” at the March 14 hearing, the committee announced Tuesday.

This announcement comes a week after a federal judge blocked the addition of the citizenship question, issuing a scathing 277-page ruling accusing Ross of violating the Administrative Procedure Act.

Critiquing Ross’ motivation for adding the question, U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman said that the Commerce Secretary “failed to consider several important aspects of the problem; alternately ignored, cherry-picked, or badly misconstrued the evidence in the record before him; acted irrationally both in light of that evidence and his own stated decisional criteria; and failed to justify significant departures from past policies and practices — a veritable smorgasbord of classic, clear-cut APA violations.”

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