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
This is kathleen from minnesota. Good morning. What is the state of Small Business in your Small Community . Everything is drivethru, but you cannot go in and sit down and eat. Its at disney had 30 two thousand jobs, so everything brickandmortar, you have to wear masks if youre going into the store. We are barely hanging on. The United States department of agriculture stopped giving out School Buses School lunches out on the buses. Host as we look at the state of Small Business including mississippi, what is your message to washington at this point . Where is Mitch Mcconnell . He put the bill on the table to be passed and he left town. Nancy pelosi put up the heroes act, and nobody is talking about recession. Nobody talking about people in the hospital that need ppe. This is dire. Just sitting at home ever since january of 2020, when the first covid19 came into mississippi. Ost thank you we want to hear from Small Business owners, employees, shoppers, folks like kathleen who live in mi
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Us with your first name and city , youate at 202 7488003 can also join the conversation on twitter or facebook. Yesterday follows the news that the Unemployment Rate the highest rate since the great depression. We want to hear from all of you. Becomingy about unemployed because of the pandemic. We begin with the debate on the floor. Here is David Schweitzer, the republican from arizona making the argument for the legislation. Phone calls last couple weeks talking to that Small Business person and you could almost hear the tears on the others of the call. You could hear the stress, the almost panic that they are about to hurt the very people they work with. Because their business is playing. A promise that payroll protections money that ran out a couple weeks ago. That and we engaged in a type of cruelty because we sat here and engaged, we are better than this. We knew what we had to do. Lets never do this again. For arizona, what we are about to vote on is 202,000 jobs. They shouldve h
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