Testified on capitol hill recently regarding budgets for 2017 and 2018. Modernization and cybersecurity efforts from the Top Priorities for all these agencies. This House Administration Committee Hearing is about an hour and a half. I now call to order the committee on House Administration for the purpose of starting todays hearing on the operations and priorities of the house officers and legislative branch entities. Aquorum is present so we may proceed. I would like to start off by thanking my colleagues and our witnesses for your attendance today. I know how busy everyone is and we appreciate your flexibility and willingness to appear this afternoon. I would also like to thank our witnesses for hard work and assistance during new member and a smooth transition for staff into the 115th congress and especially for the incredible amount of work that went into securing and hosting the president ial inauguration. We know many months of preparation went into insuring our government carrie
Should get together with each other and say what do we want and then make it known and then illustrate by your example that you can have a home life and work life. One of my former had three young children, a day schedule. There happy with her work. She has a whole library of work at her fingertips at home. It should be much easier to have a balanced life that once was, but dont be shy about speaking up. Have company when you do so so you are not a lone voice. Thank you. [applause] thank you very much. Our civil rights leaders and great nicknames, all these wonderful things, and thanks everyone for coming. Enjoy the rest your week. [applause] book tv is on twitter and facebook. We want to hear from you. Treat us, twitter. Com book tv or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook. Com book tv. Doctor carla, can you remember the first moment that you were asked about being a librarian of congress. I can remember that moment because i was surprised. I had been advising and consulting b
Members were contingent and unsecure with their jobs. Now its over 70 . That trend seems to be continuing. The trend of state legislatures defunding Higher Education gradually shifting the cost from taxpayers to students, thats now a 25 year trend. Trends like that dont always and quickly. I think theres a future for state funding in higher Public Education is not great. Both of those things do not mind mote bode well for maintaining Higher Education. If i were to recommend anything i would recommend the federal government pay for public Higher Education and make it freeforall children come to all americanamerican s. 60 billion a year and a couple of battleships left, we have actually made public Higher Education a genuine public good. I think without some fundamental change the quality is going to erode. Scientists all over the country having to choose the basic research that will bring in the most dollars. Rather they choose the research that will do the most good for the people in t
Partnership with the library of congress paying our five salaries but, indeed, we have raised private money from the beginning to help support our array of programs and projects. There are center for the books now in every state, and i know we have a broad audience today, and i look challenge you to look up and learn about the center for the book in your state which works at state level in promoting books and reading and libraries. Here at the library of congress one of our Major Projects is the National Book festival which i hope many of you know about. Its a library of congress project involving many parts of the library. It is in its 14th year coming up, and this year it will be held on the National Mall september 21st and 22nd. The center for the book also is the administrator of the first Young Readers center at the library of congress which is located now in the jefferson building. Its the only place that focuses on the reading interests of Young Readers 16 and under as long as t