"The Census Bureau has solicited citizenship information in a variety of formats almost continuously from 1850 to the present. It is only now, when the Trump Administration decides to reinstate the citizenship question on the decennial census, that Democrats and liberal special interests object to collecting citizenship data.Chairman Cummings has initiated a partisan investigation designed to solicit the same information from the Commerce Department that is currently at issue before the Supreme Court. His investigation is a key part of the Democrat effort to sow apprehension and illegitimacy around the reinstatement of the citizenship question on the 2020 Census. Chairman Cummings’s investigation is also, unfortunately, a missed opportunity. By dedicating the Committee’s limited resources toward a partisan investigation, the Chairman is sacrificing bipartisan oversight of the real challenges facing the census—such as information technology, hiring and recruiting, communications and partnership programs, opening area census offices, and the census print contract. If Chairman Cummings focused on these issues rather than pursuing a partisan investigation of the citizenship question, the Committee could have a real chance to help mitigate potential waste, fraud, and abuse in the 2020 Census."