Political Quotes

“Mr. President, today I am pleased to be joined by my colleagues on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee-- Chairman Harkin, Ranking Member Enzi, and Senator Burr in introducing the Museum and Library Services Act of 2010. Together our offices worked to craft a bipartisan bill that updates museum and library services funded through the Institute for Museum and Library Services, IMLS, to better meet the needs of Americans of all ages and in all types of locations. The Museum and Library Services Act was first enacted in 1996, and my predecessor, the late Senator Claiborne Pell, was instrumental in its development and enactment. This law established IMLS, an independent Federal agency, to oversee funding and programs authorized under the law's two main subtitles, the Library Services and Technology Act, LSTA, and the Museum Services Act. Libraries and museums are rich centers of learning, woven into the fabric of our communities, big and small, urban and rural. Libraries are not just places to read and borrow books or for parents to bring their children for story time. During the economic recession, even as libraries are being forced to do more with less, more and more people are also turning to their public libraries for access to information and the Internet, job search and training programs, and business development help. As noted in the new report, ``Opportunity for All: How the American Public Benefits from Internet Access at U.S.…”