Chairman blunt the Senate Rules Committee held proposals for two new Smithsonian Museums, the american Womens History Museum and the National Museum of the american latino. Among the witnesses, the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and actress eva longoria. His is about 90 minutes. Chairman blunt the committee on rules and administration will come to order. Good morning. 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. The secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, miss jane abraham, former chairman of the 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 bi
Held proposals for two new Smithsonian Museums, the american Womens History Museum and the National Museum of the american latino. Theg the witnesses, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and actress eva longoria. This is about 90 minutes. 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. The secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, miss jane abraham, former chairman of the 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 u
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
recent victim. this is two hours. sen. collins: come tomittee will order. good morning. today, the special committee on updatin updatedng its 2020 fraud book. it lists the top 10 scams that have been reported to our committee over the past year. the good news is that the notorious irs impersonation scams, which have been the top scams reported to the committee for five consecutive years has , has fallen off dramatically. it used to be number one, now it is number seven. it is still a problem, but public awareness has certainly helped to decrease the prevalence of that scam. unfortunately, the social security impersonation scam, the topic of this morning s hearing, has risen to take its place. now reports of the ssa scam barely registered as recently as 2017, but then it began to take off, cracking the top 10 scams reported to our committee s fraud hotline in 2018 and becoming the number one recorded scam last year, as shown on the chart displayed on the monitor. this scam has
Please come to order. ,odays hearing is on alex azar the nominee to serve as secretary of the department of health and Human Services. The committee will vote on the nomination. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement and then the former secretary and governor of you call who we younge today, and senator who is a member of this committee, will introduce mr. Azar. Senators will each have five minutes of questions. We have a lot going on today in the senate but we already have a good turnout, so i anticipate a good, vigorous questioning. Hes confirmed to lead the department of health and Human Services, you will run a 1. 1 trillion organization, that almost signals the total of 12 Appropriations Bills that Congress Passes each year to find everything from National Parks to National Defense to national laboratories. You will be overseeing medicare and medicaid. Our nations government run Insurance Programs for the poor and elderly, Mental Health and substance abuse, or yo