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
Homeland of the ramaytush alone. Who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land, and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded loss nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place. As well as for all people who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. This meeting is being held in hybrid format, with the meeting occurring in person in city hall, room 416 broadcast live on govtv and available on view on zoom or listen to by. Calling 166919006833 using meeting. Id 89641684613. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment periods. While there will be an opportunity for general Public Comment at the beginning of
Broadcast live on govtv and available on view on zoom or listen to by. Calling 166919006833 using meeting. Id 89641684613. We welcome the publics participation during Public Comment periods. While there will be an opportunity for general Public Comment at the beginning of the meeting and there will be an opportunity to comment on each discussion or or action item on the agenda. Each comment is limited to three minutes. For those attending remotely, the commission will hear up to 20 minutes of remote Public Comment total for each agenda item because of the 20 minute time limit, it is possible that not every person in the queue will have an opportunity to provide remote Public Comment. Remote Public Comment from people who have received an accommodation due to disability will not count towards the 20 minute limit. Public comment will be taken both in person and remotely by video or call in for each item. The commission will take Public Comment first from people attending the meeting in p
We have a campaign that was permeated by issues of gender and race and class. When a woman at the top of the democratic ticket for the first time. When a billionaire at the top of the republican ticket that have it discourse. Also in this campaign we sought thought differences from campaigns in the near past it enters into the discourse in new and different ways. In ways that are perpetrated in ways that we have not seen in previous campaigns. It is not to say that they didnt have sexism and racism. In part due to the campaign and the ways in which they played into that campaign we expect them to play large roles. We already see in terms of policy donald trump promising to make an executive order to build a wall along the u. S. Mexican border. We also have seen it. With regard to gender and gender equality between three and 4 Million People marching across america in response to the administration and for gender equality. We already see important dynamics and articles come into a polit
Here in the United States or abroad. 2016, we hadll of a campaign that was permeated by issues of gender and race and the class. We had a woman at the top of the democratic ticket for the first time. We had a billionaire at the top of the republican ticket who had a discourse of some population populism. Also in the campaign, we saw differences of campaigns in the past in that sex and race enters in new andscourse different ways. Sexism and racism in particular were overtly discussed by candidates in ways that ways we had not seen in previous campaigns. That is not to say previous campaigns didnt have it, but rarely do we hear sexist or racist comments coming from the candidates themselves. In part due to the campaign, and the ways in which gender and race played in, we expect gender in thee to a large roles 45th president ial administration. We already see, for example, today, in terms of policy, donald trump is promising to make an executive order to build a wall along the u. S. And