Senate Democrats complained Wednesday that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross won’t be attending an upcoming hearing on the department’s fiscal 2020 funding request and suggested he is ducking hard questions about his earlier testimony regarding a plan to add a citizenship question on the U.S. census.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, of Vermont, who is the top Democrat on the panel, in a statement Wednesday suggested Ross has something to hide by declining the invitation to testify.

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