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Senate Confirms Trump's Census Bureau Director Nominee Steven Dillingham

In a unanimous voice vote on Wednesday, the Senate confirmed a new permanent head of the Census Bureau who will oversee the 2020 census and inherit seven lawsuits over a new citizenship question.
President Trump's nominee for Census Bureau director, Steven Dillingham (center), speaks with Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., at his Oct. 3 confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

The Senate has voted to fill the top post at the U.S. Census Bureau with President Trump's nominee Steven Dillingham.

on Wednesday, the Senate confirmed Dillingham's nomination, which the . He previously led smaller federal agencies, including the Bureau of Justice Statistics and

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