FILE - Robert L. Santos, nominee to be director of U.S. Census Bureau, arrives to a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen Building on July 15, 2021.
During his confirmation hearing, Santos told senators that his duel passions were statistics and helping people. He is a former president of the American Statistical Association and was vice president and chief methodologist at the Urban Institute."Those opportunities that I’ve had allowed me to believe that I should pay it forward, and I’ve tried to do that every day of my life," Santos said. "Census Bureau data helps weave us together to form a more perfect union.