I think that's your challenge as a committee. The challenge for all of you is to try to remove your partisan blinkers for once and find a consensus that makes it work. These censuses aren't perfect sciences; you have to continue to work to make them better.
It would be best if you around this table listened to all the concerns people had and made sure you had the quality of information you want. But deal with the privacy issues, the threats. I don't think you can say these voluntary surveys won't work. They work in the private sector. I don't know how you can say that until you try it.