CENSUS/CITIZENSHIP/TRUMP PEOPLE/WILBER ROSS: “Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Thursday [3-14-19] that his congressional testimony on adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census has been truthful, even displaying a series of photographs in rebuttal to Democrats who argue otherwise…Democrats have claimed that Ross misled them at a March 2018 hearing, when he appeared to testify that he had not discussed with the White House whether to add the controversial question, which many fear could prompt even legal immigrants to avoid completing the census — leading to an inaccurate count of the US population that would impact a wide range of social services and other government programs…When the Commerce Department later released documents showing a phone call between Ross and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon about the citizenship question, Meng said she felt ‘lied to.’ At Thursday’s hearing, Ross displayed photographs of him answering the question. The pictures showed him holding a document, and Ross explained he thought the question was about the document, rather than more generally.”
–Gregory Wallace, “Commerce Secretary says he didn’t mislead Congress about census citizenship question,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, March 14, 2019 6:20 pm