Committee. Secretary bunche outlines his priorities for the institution and efforts to reduce the maintenance backlog and comments on public, private partnerships is with sony and funding and the challenges for the National Latino museum. From earlier this month this is about 50 minutes. The committee on rules and administration will be called to order pretty good morning. I want to thank my colleagues for attending and before i can thank the secretary for bringing some of their great collection for us to look at but mr. Secretary, we are glad to have you and several people from your team here to back you up if you need it but im confident you will be able to be the man at that microphone they are. This is your First Official appearance before the Senate Rules Committee and we are grateful to have you with us. Secretary bunches appointment is historic in a number of ways in the first africanamerican secretary to lead the Smithsonian Institution as well as the first Museum Director who
We are a small academic Publishing House attached to the largest Baptist University in the world in waco texas. We are very focused, almost all of the 40 books we published each year are focused on academic conversations surrounding religion. Melissas book is a natural fit for our listand we are proud to be the publisher of it. I suspect that for many of you linda rogers needs no introduction at all. She served as special assistant to president barack obama and executive director of the White House Office of faithbased and neighborhood partnerships. She holds a law degree from the university of pennsylvania and she serves as visiting professor at Wake Forest University school of divinity and a nonresident senior fellow at the brookings institution. She has received an honorary doctorate from Wake Forest University and the johnleland center for theological studies. 11 years ago Melissa Rogers coauthored her first book at Baylor University press, an ambitious volume called religious free
To order. The National Museum of the american latino act. Under Committee Role as they are limited to the chair and the ranking minority member. Therefore i ask unanimous consent that all other members be made part of a curing Record Record if they are submitted to the clerk 5 00 p. M. Today tiered hearing no objection so order. In addition to the broad interest in todays hearing i would like to ask unanimous consent that all interested members be allowed to join us and participate on the dais. Before we get started, i would like to take, i would like to take a point of personal privilege and have a moment of silence for our friends. Our colleague. Defender of justice and inequality. And humanity. Mr. Elisha cummings. Thank you all so much. Thank you for attending the subcommittee. Legislative hearing on the National Museum of the american latino act. A proposal i am proud to cosponsor along with over 200 of my colleagues. I would like to extend my gratitude to the representative as we
This hearing providing oversight to the Smithsonian Institution. In 1836, congress accepted the quest from an english scientist who never visited the United States but nevertheless decided to leave his substantial fortune to our country for the increased knowledge. Ten years later in 1846, the Smithsonian Institution was formally established by congress. In the 173 years since, the smithsonian has grown to a complex of 19 museums, Numerous Research centers, Library Systems and a network of more than 200 affiliate organizatio organizations, archives and the national zoo. Today the smithsonian serves as a steward to more than 154 billion artifacts, works of art and specimens. Visitors from across the country and around the world flock to see this broad collection, and in 2018 alone there were nearly 29 million visitors to the smithsonian. The smithsonian also works around the world to advance critical scientific discoveries and research. Earlier this year thanks in large part to the astr
Eli blog whether are are are it are [inaudible conversations] there, ladies and gentlemen, welcome once again to the 35th annual printer row litfest presented be near south Planning Board if want to give a special thank you to our sponsors for the generous support this year, especially win trust as our programming sponsor the robert r. Mccormick foundation, alpha food wings, the tribune, three l real estate and cspan booktv. Todays program will be broadcast live on cspan2s booktv which he are live now. If theres time at the end of the discussion, for q awith the author issue ask you to line up at the microphone and speak speak microphone. And finally i ask that anyone here that is just got with us, please silence your cellphones. Nobody wants to be that person and then if youre going to take a photo, please turn off the flash. As a courtesy to the presenters please welcome daniel green, professor of history at northwestern university, and curator of americans and the holocaust, an exhi