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
California delivered the weekly democratic address. He discussed veteran Suicide Prevention. Our committee has worked diligently to work for veterans. Even as we confront the covid19 pandemic. Expand opportunities for students veterans. We continue to Prioritize Health and exercise our legislative functions. Democratsess, house ensured that Vietnam Veterans finally got the benefits they have earned and deserve. It took four years, but we got it done. Reducingeen working on veteran suicide. Comprehensivesan legislature. Despite the challenges of took19, House Democrats bold steps to adjust gaps in for veteransd care who are at heightened risk for suicide. Have not used the v. A. Health care recently. No veteran has to worry about the costs of seeking care. Sadly, the Suicide Prevention report confirms two points we already know to be true. They are less likely to die by suicide. As many as 17 veterans died by suicide each day. The next generation of veterans is expected to be the most d
Worthy of our great republic. We do so by advocating for the classic condition in civic design. We believe that tradition is unparalleled and its dignity, beauty and harmony, not to mention its legibility to the common man. It is no accident that the Founding Fathers chose the classical style when designing the Nations Capital and its and its core buildings of government. The founders sought to harken back to republic rome and democratic athens and knew that classical architecture was time honored and timeless. The National Civic arts Society Works to continue and expand upon the founders vision for the Nations Capital in federal design generally. I perhaps dont need to tell you that since the 19 fifties, washington d. C. Has been marred and disfigured by federal buildings and memorials that do not comport with the citys classical heritage and identity. For instance, there is the hirsch horn museum, which looks like a bunker. Then theres the bird list fbi building which i called the mi
To face in person, so thank you for tuning in and obviously doubledip honored that youve agreed to speak with me tonight about the book ron kovic. Right. Not kovac. We were introduced by tom come sport media writer years ago. Ron has been very encouraging and helped quite a bit with this book in terms of background and research and so forth. Ron of course was a vietnam veteran. Most of the book that i wrote is about world war ii veterans and a just want to give you a little background before we start speaking. Before world war ii if you were paralyzed you were pretty much a dead ender, a no hope for as they were called. If the average lifespan was a team is for someone wounded in world war i. World war ii was a game changer. The advent of penicillin, sulfur drugs. They had surgical units right behind the battlefield come right behind the front lines and they had better evacuation back to the mainland so by the end of world war ii you had a cohort of about 2500 u. S. Veterans were paral