Join the discussion. On thursday, voters in the United Kingdom will decide if their country should stay or leave the european union. British Prime Minister David Cameron and Labor Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn want the uk to to remain a member of the e. U. But some members of the party are part of the breck it is push, advocating for the uk to split from the european union. Watch the simulcast on cspan 2 and cspan. Org. Smithsonian institution secretary david skorten briefed legislators on plans to renovate the national air and space museum. He explained that at least half of the museum will remain open while the work is in progress. This House Administration Committee Hearing is about an hour. I now all call to order the committee on House Administration for todays hearing on the Smithsonian Institutions National air and space museum revitalization. A quorum is present so we may proceed. I welcome our two witnesses, the secretary of the smithsonian and the undersecretary for finance and
British Prime Minister David Cameron and Labor Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn want the uk to to remain a member of the e. U. But some members of the party are part of the breck it is push, advocating for the uk to split from the european union. Watch the simulcast on cspan 2 and cspan. Org. Smithsonian institution secretary david skorten briefed legislators on plans to renovate the national air and space museum. He explained that at least half of the museum will remain open while the work is in progress. This House Administration Committee Hearing is about an hour. I now all call to order the committee on House Administration for todays hearing on the Smithsonian Institutions National air and space museum revitalization. A quorum is present so we may proceed. I welcome our two witnesses, the secretary of the smithsonian and the undersecretary for finance and administration and chief Financial Officer for smithsonian, albert or vath. This is the first appearance of secretary skorton. He has
Tour. The memorial is the final resting place of 40 passengers and crew. This program is just under an hour. Schaeffer and im a park ranger at flight 93 national memorial. We will be looking inside the Visitor Center which was dedicated in 2015. We are standing out at the end of the flight path overlook. We are standing on the shadow of the flight path flight 93 would have been on. The reason we are standing here is because this orientation for visitors is central to the design of the Visitor Center itself. The walls shield the visitors view of the landscape around us. And the enormity of the landscape. And only frame the flight path as you approach the entrance. As you are coming off the parking lot, you have to walk the flight path this plane was on just before it crashed. One of the first things visitors notice as they are walking the flight path is the timestamps that are embedded in the ground. This timestamp represents the first plane striking the north tower in new york city at
Center which details the events of september 11, 2001. The memorial is the final resting place of 40 passengers and crew whose actions prevented four al qaeda hijackers from crashing United Airlines into the u. S. Capitol building. This program is just under an hour. Adam i am adam shaffer and im a park ranger at flight 93 National Memorial. We will be looking inside the Visitor Center, which was dedicated in 2015. We are standing out at the end of the flight path overlook. We are standing on the shadow of the flight path flight 93 would have been on just before impact on the ground behind me. The reason we are standing here is because this orientation for visitors is central to the design of the Visitor Center itself. The walls shield the visitors view of the landscape around us. And the enormity of the landscape. And only frames the flight path as you approach the entrance. As you are coming off the parking lot, you have to walk the flight path this plane was on just before it crashe
We have among naomi kelly the city administrator and other appointed officials i want to single out for special recognition the war memorial managing drooshgs ethically murray clapping clapping. she has been the heart of the project and its vision for nearly 20 years i want to recognize San Francisco public works city architecture edgar lopez and San Francisco Arts Commission decoration tom deacon i didnt i want to significantly out public works Veterans Building pg e tara relay la monday night clapping if beth were the heart of the project tara was its soul id like to acknowledge andy are you mellone and solace a project of this scope doesnt get accomplished without additional partners and id like to recognize a number of them on behalf of the San Francisco post to the American Legion a nelson the commander the integrity and paul chair of the american legacy War Memorial Commission clapping. also the project engineer ron hearing of simpson and hearing and bret and projector superinten