The committee on rules and Administration Come to order. I thank my colleagues for attending todays hearing, some virtually, some in person, 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 cc rojas of the Latino Coalition and mister danny vargas, 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 had been sponsors of this bill. Senator collins, senator cornyn, senator menendez 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 secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in june of 2019, what a first year you have had. Obviously covid19 forc
Watch American History tv this weekend on cspan3. Welcome, everyone, to the National World war ii museum. Here at the museum we have several different permanent exhibits and were here today on the road to tokyo exhibit which is going to take us through the war in the pacific and asia from 1941 to 1945. Weve designed this exhibit as a recreation of the bridge of the uss enterprise, a world war ii aircraft carrier. As you advance into the exhibit, youre going to start on the ship and get yourself oriented to the war in the pacific. One of the things we like to do is introduce our visitors to the main players. We have a lineup of four of them here, we have the japanese emperor, the man who is responsible for the war in the pacific, the president of the United States Franklin Dell noer roosevelt and the leader of the nationalist chinese. We fought a war in the pacific. They found a war on the asia mainland. Very bloody war. As we advance through the bridge of the uss enterprise, this is wh
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