At testy census citizenship question hearing, House Democrat calls on Wilbur Ross to resign
1 / 4Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross testifies during the House Oversight Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 14, 2019.
Ross testified before the House Oversight and Reform Committee in an often contentious hearing. He stuck with his explanation from previous hearings that Justice Department officials made a formal request to include the citizenship question to help it enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Two federal judges have declared the move illegal. A federal judge in New York had previously blocked the administration from adding the question to the population count that occurs every 10 years, and the Supreme Court last month agreed to review that decision.
Clay said Ross failed to mention the memo when testifying to Congress previously and asked him whether he wanted to"take responsibility today for misleading Congress, whether intentionally or not about the process you followed to add the citizenship question to the 2020 census."
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