Political Quotes

“I rise today on behalf of a project to construct a new Southeastern Regional Archives in Atlanta, Georgia, for its National Archives and Records Administration. The regional archives provides a necessary service of acquiring, preserving and making available for research the permanent records of the Federal Government. Currently, all of the records in the Southeast are stored in a World War II-era warehouse that does not meet building codes and is scheduled to be condemned and torn down. My amendment would transfer $14 million of GSA's buildings operations account into the National Archives Repair and Registration Account. The Southeast Regional Archives serves Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Its holdings include the records of the Civil War, World War I, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Marshall Space Flight Center, the Kennedy Space Center, the Manhattan Project, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Federal courts of the Southeast region. It is simply unacceptable to continue to store these documents, these important documents, I may say, that detail our Nation's history, in a facility that is due for the wrecking ball. National Archives acknowledges that these historic Federal records are currently at risk, housed in a warehouse wholly inadequate as an archival depository.”