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
The directions for the problems with voting by mail. The mail seems to have been a National Story now is with you can can trust the meal or not and that is what covid19 has brought to the fore. We need to we should have put some his health at risk to exercise a constitutional right to vote so thats what people have turned to the mail including West Virginia. What weve done is within the bounds of law, thats one of the key points you enjoy set to stay within your state state bar, te elections are run by the states and within states and then by the counties. Why people may hear something happening and in the state that may be working the vote by mail system arena, they have to take that into context that in those states perhaps they been working on that for ten or 15 years, if you talk to him wideman in washington and an organ and somebodys other states doing vote by mail. Theyve been working on the voter list maintenance and getting the proper machinery in place to be able to count the
Boost temperatures. A mild one this afternoon. 55 degrees at noontime today. Well top out near 60 in philadelphia, new jersey. Upper 50s for delaware. Sunshine and winds kicking into the Lehigh Valley. From the 20s this morning into the 50s this afternoon. Ill break it down hour by hour and show you what to expect during the day today and look be at the sevenday forecast coming up. In gloucester county, crews just cleared an accident that shut down part of the black horse pike in washington township. The tractortrailer hit someone. Were still working to learn the victims condition. Heres first alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington with the rest of the traffic for today. Jessica . Right. Ill touch on that accident that we talked about. With that registering as closed, theyre probably getting everything out of the way. Northbound moving through washington township. If you have to avoid the Atlantic City expressway, you might have a slowdown there getting by the scene. For the most par
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