[20220211]IF11845_人口普查局局长.pdf

https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated February 11, 2022The Census Bureau Director Introduction On April 13, 2021, the White House announced President Bidens intention to nominate Robert Santos, a statistician and survey methodologist who at the time was president of the American Statistical Association, to be the new Director of the Census (informally known as the Census Bureau director). The Senate confirmed his nomination on November 4, 2021, for a five-year term. Mr. Santos was sworn in on January 5, 2022, and is the first bureau director of Latino ethnicity. The decennial census is mandated by Article I, Section 2, clause 3, of the U.S. Constitution, as modified by Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Census Bureaus history website notes that although the census has been conducted since 1790, a permanent Census Office was not established until 1902. Initially in the Department of the Interior, the office moved to the new Department of Commerce and Labor in 1903. In 1913, when Commerce and Labor became separate departments, the Census Office remained in Commerce. Census law is codified in Title 13 of the U.S. Code. Title 13, Section 21(a)(1), provides that the Census Bur