The committee on rules and administration well come to order. I thank my colleagues for attending todays hearing, some virtually, some in person. The same for our witnesses. We are going to be welcoming them as well. Congressional commission to study the potential for a National Womens History Museum. Miss c. C. Rojas, chairman of the Latino Coalition, and mr. Danny vargas, chairman of the friends of the National Museum of the american latino. I want to thank all of them for joining us. We will hear from a number of senators who have spent time on this and have been sponsors of this bill. Senator collins, senator cornyn, senator menendez will all be joining us for remarks following the remarks of the three of us. This is secretary bunchs second appearance before the senate rules committee. We are grateful to have him with us today. He was appointed the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in june of 2019. And what a first year you have had. Obviously, covid forced closure of all 19
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One who got the most votes for now they still have a few 1000 left to count. But so far joe biden in the lead again by about 50 really an extraordinary development, is something that you thought youd never see in georgia but thats happening. And then in pennsylvania are also seeing that lead great yeah, so lets jump over to pennsylvania where we have again the major areas that are being counted still include philadelphia and pittsburgh. And thats Philadelphia County and allegheny county. Again about 50,000 votes are being processed in the 5th in the philadelphia area about 30,000 to 35,000 in the pittsburgh area and the vast majority of those votes coming in. Well theyve already been and are being counted now. But about 75 to 80 have been going to joe biden about 20 to 15 of going to donald trump and for that reason weve seen joe biden take over the lead position and continuing to add hes ahead now by about 9,004 and things are going actually quite smoothly. Considering that there has
To the website. If ive got that right ok. Thank you for your rapt attention this morning, i think you are in for more surprises this afternoon. Our first speaker is ed ayers. I feel like he needs no introduction to the Richmond Community but i will introduce him. He has received the National Humanities level from president obama at the white house and served as president of the organization of american historians and won the bancroft prize for distinguished writing in American History. He has served as the founding chair of the board of the American Civil War museum. He hosts the future of americas past, a Television Series that visits sites of memory and meets the people who keep those memories alive. He is the executive director of the new American History, and of course we all know him from a when we are driving around in our cars, as one of the American History guys. An online project design that has promoted the student in all of us to divide to dive into history and see it in new
Wanted to start out by sharing with you the partnership between the National Parks conservatives association, and the association of study of life and history began more than 28 years ago. It was then at that irena webster, and govern spencer dug, joined with the woman who would become my first boss at ncaa, i had to get right. Had the vision to join forces to support an enhanced the work that the National Parks service is doing in order to protect the African American experience. Sadly, i had to give passed away earlier this year. I want to take a moment at the start of this conversation about the preservation of the history of the struggle to achieve black Voting Rights, to remember my boss, my friend and a true pioneer in the long and ongoing process to make congress this survey shun and preservation organizations like and pca, more just, equitable, diverse and inclusive. Thank you diana. Now, for our panel today, folks are going to be aware of the history of the struggle of Voting