Chuck Grassley: “I want to speak to an issue that should have been discussed 2 days ago during the Interior Department appropriations…”

“I want to speak to an issue that should have been discussed 2 days ago during the Interior Department appropriations bill. But the Interior Department will still be up next week when it is put back up on the calendar, or in parts of the continuing resolution, and so I alert my friends to a trend in military history that is very disturbing to me as it relates to the Smithsonian Institution. Upon debating the Interior Department's funding, this is as good time as any to voice concern over the interpretations of American history at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. Apparently, military history has assumed a minor role in the museum's depiction of this Nation's history. The exhibit space allocated to the display of military items has slowly decreased. A large percentage of that which is currently on display remains in the cases in which they were installed for the opening of the museum over 30 years ago. Further inquiry has led me to believe that what remains of the Armed Forces' history hall is in jeopardy. The administrators of this museum appear to be swayed by the ideology of revisionist/liberal historians.”