The bureau does not attempt to include them in its measure of personal income, although capital gains added greatly to income in the boom years but much less over the last 18 months, judging from the sharp fall in tax payments last April.
Lassman said the bureau also is planning to include more statistics in the report beyond industry revenue, but declined to be more specific.
Vecchione still heads the Rackets Bureau, which expanded three years ago to include a sex trafficking unit.
In the meantime, credit bureaus do allow consumers to include a 100-word statement on their credit reports explaining an outstanding debt.
The bill, introduced by Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who is the committee's chairman, and Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, would require lie-detector tests for bureau employees working with secret information, expand the jurisdiction of the Justice Department's inspector general to include the bureau and protect F.B.I. employees under a federal whistle-blower law.
The bureau undertook an extensive assessment to include determining whether individuals under surveillance had moved to other means of communication.
Expanding his public criticism for the first time to include the bureau, he added, "I think the same questions apply to the F.B.I. as to police investigators".
He is also receiving a series of US fees from the Washington Speakers Bureau for making speeches estimated to include a £600,000 signing-on fee; consultancies with the US bank, JP Morgan and with Swiss insurers Zurich Financial Services; and commercial consultancy deals through his private firm, Tony Blair Associates, with regimes in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates among others.
"The National Science Foundation had spent years lobbying for the Census Bureau to include the college-major question, arguing that it is essential for monitoring trends in the scientific workforce," Jeffrey Mervis wrote Tuesday at ScienceInsider.
The National Science Foundation had spent years lobbying for the Census Bureau to include the college-major question, arguing that it is essential for monitoring trends in the scientific workforce.
