Dear CTPP News Recipients: The US House of Representatives, Committee on Government Reform, Subcommittee on the Census, held a hearing this past Thursday, July 20th, on the American Community Survey. Written testimony presented at this meeting is included on Congressman Dan Miller's web site, at: http://www.house.gov/danmiller/census/hearing/hearing.html I would encourage census data users to review Congressman Miller's opening remarks, the statemement by the Census Bureau director, Kenneth Prewitt, and statements by: John Spotila (OMB), David Crowe, (National Association of Home Builders), and Chuck Fluharty ((Rural Policy Research Institute), and Kulka and Lessler (Research Triangle Institute.) Obviously this is the written testimony, and I can't "read between the lines" so I'm uncertain what was the tenor of the congressional subcommittee in terms of support or antagonism towards ACS. Dr. Prewitt mentioned that the 1999 ACS data for 21 of the 31 areas would be released the week of July 24, 2000. I've check the Bureau's ACS web site, and haven't seen the '99 data yet. To me, it's kind of like waiting for the Nouveau Beaujolais.... http://www.census.gov/CMS/www/ Chuck Purvis, MTC