First of all, mr. Kern, whats your day job . Great question, peter. Well, my day job is helping take care of the smithsonian and the legacy that the American People give us. You know, we host over 30 Million People to the museum. My job is to help make the museums work, help the directors do their job. I have to take care of budgets and politics and Public Relations and things, but also the content of the work, what we do, what we show, the kind of ways in which we want to help americans and people around the world understand the american experience. How long have you been with the smithsonian . I first worked here in 1976 for the bicentennial of the United States, and then permanently since 1994. As the under secretary, are you the coo in a sense . Well, we have three under secretary, one a earth science, one is finance administration, and im for everything else. I have a ph. D. In anthropology. All right. American history in 101 objects. Where did you get the idea . Well, theres a fe
You know about this. And it leads to the question, are they misof informing congress, do you think . And if so, why . Well, first of all, they havent been asked the right question, so they havent misof informed congress. But there is such a thing as to missive misrepresentation to missive misrepresentation. And if you knew there was a terrorist getting your money, you would with duty bound to report it. And our country, our administration should not be vibrantly and robustly allowing american taxpayer money to be fungiblely financed into terrorist salaries. We should just abruptly say this has got to stop. Now, let me give you a similarly. The biggest simile. The biggest demonstration in the history of man kind occurred in egypt some months ago. The biggest petition in the history of mankind occurred in egypt some months ago. The Muslim Brotherhood was dethroned. The question was, and i have my own tv show, i asked this question, everybody in the media was asking this question, was it
You get to know what the past was like. And the longing to go back, and for me, its amazing character, the combination of medical thriller and political thriller and this figure at the center of it. That is what got me interested. And even though it took me way longer than i wanted to. And certainly than my wife wanted it to, i loved living with the roosevelts. I dont want to keep you on a rainy night. Thank you very much for having me. [applause] youve youre watching 48hours of Nonfiction Author and books on cspan twos booktv. Well, booktv is on location at the smithsonian newb museum. Nder were joined bit undersecretarye of the smithsonian who has a new book out. Sonnians history. First of all, mr. Kern, whats your day job . Great question, peter. Well, my day job is helping take care of the smithsonian and the legacy that the American People give us. You know, we host over 30 Million People to the museum. My job is to help make the museums work, help the directors do their job. I ha
Booktv is on location in washington, d. C. Joined by the under secretary of the smithsonian who has a new book out. S smith sonnians history. First of all, mr. Kern, whats your day job . Great question, peter. Well, my day job is helping take care of the smithsonian and the legacy that the American People give us. You know, we host over 30 Million People to the museum. My job is to help make the museums work, help the directors do their job. I have to take care of budgets and politics and Public Relations and things, but also the content of the work, what we do, what we show, the kind of ways in which we want to help americans and people around the world understand the american experience. How long have you been with the smithsonian . I first worked here in 1976 for the bicentennial of the United States, and then permanently since 1994. As the under secretary, are you the coo in a sense . Well, we have three under secretary, one a earth science, one is finance administration, and im fo
The gentleman reserves the balance of his time. The gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. Mr. Lucas mr. Speaker, im prepared to close whenever its appropriate. So i will continue to reserve until then. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. The gentleman from new york is recognized. Mr. Tonko mr. Speaker, i yield one minute to the gentleman from rhode island, mr. Cicilline. Mr. Cicilline i thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, the outsourcing of American Manufacturing jobs has not only resulted in job losses and lower wages at home, its threatening americas standing as an economic superpower on the global stage. The chips and science this bill is the bold action we need to provide a strong Economic Future for american families, small businesses, and workers. Critically, this legislation includes an estimated 1. 8 billion for the National Science foundations established program to stimulate competitive research. Otherwise known as epscore, which helps small