Lawmakers want online census for 2010

By Jason Miller
FCW.com

July 18, 2007

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) can’t understand why the U.S. Census Bureau has decided not to use the Internet for at least some part of the 2010 census.

In fact, he is so disturbed by what he calls bureau managers’ lack of 21st-century vision that the ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services and International Security Subcommittee said he will try to attach a provision to the Commerce, Justice and State appropriations bill for fiscal 2008 requiring the bureau to use a portion of its 2010 census funding for at least an Internet test.

“They could do a pilot so by the 2020 census they are online,â€