Members of minority groups are more likely than whites to be missed during the census count and the government conducted a second, post-census survey to determine the number of people who had been overlooked.
Republicans favor the original, unadjusted numbers.
The designation of the official census numbers will not become final until March. The estimated net undercount is 3.3 million people who were not tallied when the Census Bureau last year put the U.S. population at 281 million. Our leaders must be accountable to the people. I believe the decision-making authority for the 2000 census should reside with the person selected by the president, approved by the U.S. Senate and accountable to the people. The Justice Department provided a legal opinion that the Commerce Department had the power to revoke the authority given to the census director to make the final decision on adjusted figures.