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Featuring: Glenn Grothman, Republican | U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin, District 6

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What Difference Does It Make If I'm 1/8th Polish?': Grothman Grills Director About Census Questions

Published | Video Starts at 01:46

But the general sense is every 10 years you leave it off. Right. There's 10 questions for 10 minutes. We try to keep the respondent burden down to increase level of participation. That's why we don't ask people, because we're afraid a question are you a citizen or are you not? Is going to burden people. And they're going to. We're looking to ask whatever the Secretary of Commerce says should be on the questionnaire for the decennial census. And historically, We've used the 10 questions. (01:46–01:53)

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Asserts that the citizenship question is omitted to avoid burdening respondents.

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