Political Quotes

“On May 17, 2000 the Field Museum of Chicago unveiled the largest and most complete T-Rex skeleton ever found, Sue. Sue as she is named was found by the renowned fossil hunter Sue Henderson, who discovered the 67 million year old Tyrannosaurus Rex in 1990, where it lay buried within Cheyenne River Sioux backlands in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The Field Museum purchased Sue for $8.1 million at auction with assistance from McDonald's Corporation, Walt Disney World Resort, the University of California System and other private donors. Sue is an unprecedented scientific find that opened in Chicago on May 17th. It has rested in Union Station here in Washington, D.C. and is scheduled for a nationwide tour which includes Boston, Honolulu, St. Paul, Columbus, Los Angeles, Toledo, Louisville, Dallas, Seattle, Milwaukee, and other cities during the next three years. Sponsored by McDonald's Corporation as its millennium gift to the nation, the traveling exhibition will ensure that the entire nation has the opportunity to experience and to learn from this fossil. With the fourth most important fossil collection in the world, the Field Museum is seeking federal funds to help construct a new Hall of Paleontology and Earth Science in which to install Sue and to support related exhibits, research and educational programming. The Illinois Delegation has joined in signing a letter urging support for federal funds for Sue.”