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Today a conversation with Robert Santos, the first Latino to lead the US Census Bureau.

President Joe Biden announced last April that his intended nominee to lead the US Census

would be Robert Santos.

From just a few weeks later, Santos went before the Senate Homeland Security Committee for

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