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“The museum's council should have to make exhibits and programs accurately cover the varied histories, cultures, events, and values of women in the United States, and should seek and use advice from trusted sources with different political views and lived experiences.”
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“The Smithsonian Secretary should have to report to Congress within 120 days and then every two years on how museum leaders are including broad Latino viewpoints and experiences in current exhibits, future exhibits, and programs.”
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“If the Smithsonian chooses land or a building controlled by another federal agency for the Latino museum, that agency should be notified, Congress should be told, and control of the site should move to the Smithsonian as soon as practical.”
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“The museum's trustees should have to make sure exhibits and programs give a full and accurate picture of many Hispanic and Latino cultures, histories, events, and values.”
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“When the museum creates or substantially changes exhibits or programs, its trustees should have to seek and use advice from trusted people and publications with different Latino viewpoints, political views, cultures, and lived experiences in the United States?”
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“Congress should set rules requiring national museums to include a wide range of political viewpoints and cultural perspectives in their exhibits, rather than leaving those decisions entirely to museum staff.”
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“The museum's outside-advice process should apply to new exhibits, new programs, and major updates, and it should define the experts, publications, firsthand witnesses, and community-trusted sources that can guide museum content.”
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“The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino should be allowed to use a site in the most protected central area of the National Mall, even though new buildings there are usually limited.”
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“The government should allow new national museums to be built in the most prominent part of the National Mall, even in areas that are currently protected from new construction.”
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“The changes on the museum site, federal land transfers, exhibit representation, source advice, and reports to Congress should be treated as if they had been part of the 2021 law that created the museum.”
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“Federal support for women's history should follow clear rules about how sex, gender identity, and transgender people are represented.”
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“Congress should set clear rules for how the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum tells women's history, including whose stories and viewpoints it must include.”
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“The Smithsonian American Women's History Museum should be allowed to use a prominent National Mall site, even if that means changing normal limits on new buildings there.”
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