If you want to watch the hearing this morning beginning at 7:30 a.m. (PT)  involving, among other bills, HR 1117 adding Nystrom School to Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park, use the livestream on the Committee’s website or YouTube page.

SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC LANDS
LONGWORTH 1324 & VIA CISCO WEBEX
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
10:30 a.m. (EST)

Agenda

Legislative Hearing on the following bills:

• H.R. 1117 (Rep. Mark DeSaulnier, D-CA), To amend the Rosie the Riveter/World War II
Home Front National Historical Park Establishment Act of 2000 to provide for additional areas
to be added to the park, and for other purposes. Rosie the Riveter National Historic Site
Expansion Act.
• H.R. 3525 (Rep. Grace Meng, D-NY), To establish the Commission to Study the Potential
Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture, and for other
purposes. Commission To Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of Asian Pacific
American History and Culture Act.
• H.R. 5230 (Rep. John Katko, R-NY), To provide a one-time grant for the operation, security,
and maintenance of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade
Center to commemorate the events, and honor the victims, of the terrorist attacks of September
11, 2001, and for other purposes. 9/11 Memorial and Museum Act.

Witness List

Panel I

Rep. Mark DeSaulnier (H.R. 1117)
California, 11th District

Rep. Grace Meng (H.R. 3525)
New York, 6th District

Rep. John Katko (H.R. 5230)
New York, 24th District

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (H.R. 5230)
New York, 10th District

Panel II

Mayor Tom Butt (H.R. 1117)
Richmond, California

Mr. Theodore S. Gonzalves (H.R. 3525)
Acting Director

Asian Pacific American Program
Smithsonian Institution

Ms. Lisa Ling (H.R. 3525)
Journalist

Dr. Russell M. Jeung (H.R. 3525)
Professor, Asian American Studies

San Francisco State University
Co-Founder
Stop AAPI Hate

Ms. Debra Burlingame (H.R. 5230)
Board Member
9/11 Memorial & Museum