21. Department of Commerce · Notable
Abolish non-statutory Census committees including the Scientific Advisory Committee
Printed page 682 21. Department of Commerce
“The new Administration should also reevaluate and potentially abolish all non-statutory standing committees within the Census Bureau, including the Census Scientific Advisory Committee.”
What has happened
- Done
All three of the Census Bureau's standing non-statutory advisory committees were terminated effective this date by the same Secretarial action: the Census Scientific Advisory Committee (named in the Quote), the 2030 Census Advisory Committee, and the National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations. The Federal Register notice announcing the terminations published 2025-06-10; the Scientific Advisory Committee's spring meeting had already been canceled by notice of 2025-03-10 and the 2030 Census Advisory Committee's by notice of 2025-03-12. No non-statutory Census standing committee is known to remain.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
done rather than partial, on the §3 test for open-ended “all X” asks: the named core object is
gone (the Census Scientific Advisory Committee), and here the sweep is demonstrably complete rather
than merely directed — the Bureau’s other two standing committees went in the same instrument, and a
jq pass over every in-window Federal Register record whose agency is the Census Bureau or the
Commerce Department finds no surviving Census advisory body of any kind after 2025-03-13.
Contrast #1819, the Department-wide version of the same ask, which is partial because at least one discretionary Commerce committee outside Census (the Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee) survived the sweep and has gone on meeting. The three Census committees are the whole of the Census set, which is why this one reaches done.
- Action
- abolish
- Object
- non-statutory Census Bureau standing committees
- ID
- 1896