Marsha Blackburn: “I thank the gentlelady from Wyoming for her superb work on this issue and for her guidance as this bill moved through…”

“I thank the gentlelady from Wyoming for her superb work on this issue and for her guidance as this bill moved through the Natural Resources Committee. It is amazing. We had two committees of jurisdiction that oversaw this legislation, House Admin, chaired by Congresswoman Candice Miller, and Natural Resources, with Congressman Doc Hastings. This legislation came through each of these committees on a unanimous vote--a unanimous vote, something deemed impossible in Washington--but everybody agrees that it is time that we come together and that we have an appropriate, bipartisan approach to addressing the collecting and the enshrining of what women have done in the fight and the cause of freedom. Now, Madam Speaker, I do want to highlight just a couple of things. There has been so much misinformation distributed about the bill. This is a 10-page bill--I should say nine pages and about three lines. I think that Congresswoman Maloney, who has worked so diligently on this effort, will say, and as she and I discussed this morning, we basically have come forward and agreed on a new approach for all museums that could possibly want to be considered. That approach is Congress, not a Presidential commission, but Congress having the ability to determine, in a bipartisan way, who serves on the commissions to review these museums and do a feasibility study, which is something those of us in business always do before we embark on any project.…”