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Democrats demand hearing on census citizenship question

By Susan Ferrechio
Published March 27, 2018 7:39pm ET
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Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the ranking member on the House Benghazi Committee, speaks to reporters before the start of the committee's closed-door hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016. The House committee is looking into the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya and is interviewing former CIA director David Petraeus as the investigation enters its third calendar year, and a presidential election year. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) | Susan Walsh

The top Democrat on the House Oversight panel is calling for a hearing to examine the decision add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

“The Oversight Committee has jurisdiction over the Census, and I call on Chairman [Trey] Gowdy to hold hearings as soon as possible on this issue, as well as other troubling examples of politicization at the Census Bureau under President Trump,” Oversight ranking member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said in a statement Tuesday.

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