September 24, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan House co-chairs of the Italian American congressional delegation, the Scottish American congressional caucus and leaders of the Native American congressional caucus have come together to cosponsor a resolution backing the proposed National Museum of the American People.
Also backing the museum are bipartisan co-chairs of the German American, Polish American, Ukrainian American, Vietnamese American, Korean American, Taiwanese American and Greek American caucuses among others.
Rep. Jim Moran, D-VA, said the museum will tell the migration and immigration stories of every ethnic and minority American community that together make our country great. The story told by the museum will begin in the prehistoric period with the first humans in the western hemisphere and continue through creation of the nation to the present.
"It will be the best story-telling museum in the country communicating one of the world's greatest stories," Moran said. "Every American will have a vested interest in coming to see where they fit into the making of the American People and, at the same time, will learn about everyone else's story. Foreign visitors will come to see how peoples from their countries helped make this the greatest nation on Earth."
Rep. Moran's resolution, H. Con. Res. 27, which has 29 bipartisan cosponsors, calls for a Presidential commission to study establishment of the museum in Washington, DC.
Moran emphasized that the coalition of more than 150 diverse organizations supporting the museum is not seeking any federal funding to plan, build or operate the museum. The coalition encompasses more than 50 different ethnic, nationality and minority groups whose forebears came from every corner of the world.
Coalition director Sam Eskenazi said "the museum will bring alive the first words of our Constitution by telling who 'We the People' are, from where we came, how and when we got here and what we did to make the United States the world's economic, military, scientific and cultural leader."
The museum, he said, "will embody our nation's original national motto, E Pluribus Unum, from many we are one." Mr. Eskenazi asked for a hearing on the resolution.
Rep. Jim Moran is available to be interviewed about this proposal. Please contact Tom Scanlon in his office: thomas.scanlon@mail.house.gov; 202-225-4376.
To interview Sam Eskenazi or ethnic organization leaders: sam@nmap2015.com; 202-744-1868.
For more information about this project, go to www.nmap2015.com.
Among the 30 congressional supporters of the museum are the bipartisan leaders of the following caucuses:
Rep. John Duncan, R-TN
Rep. Mike McIntyre, D-NC
Rep. Tom Cole, R-OK
Rep. Ron Kind, D-WI
Rep. Pat Tiberi, R-OH
Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-NJ
Rep. Jim Gerlach, R-PA
Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-NY
Rep. Tom Petri, R-WI
Rep. Frank Wolf, R-VA
Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-VA
Rep. Daniel Lipinski, D-IL
Rep. Daniel Lipinski, D-IL
Rep. Mike McIntyre, D-NC
Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-VA
Rep. Steve Cohen, D-TN
Rep. Gerald Connolly, D-VA
Rep. Frank Wolf, R-VA
Rep. Jim Gerlach, R-PA
Rep. Eni Faleomavaega, D-AS
Rep. Allyson Schwartz, D-PA
Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-FL
Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-FL
Rep. Tim Bishop, D-NY
Rep. David Cicilline, D-RI
Rep. Keith Ellison, D-MN
Rep. Rush Holt, D-NJ
Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-OH
Rep. Nita Lowey, D-NY
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-NY
Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-DC
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-NY
Rep. Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan, D-MP
Rep. Robert Scott, D-VA
Rep. TIm Walz, D-MN
Rep. Don Young, R-AK