Conservative Groups Making Last-Ditch Attempt To Stop National Women's History Museum

[shenmue]

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/conservative-groups-making-last-ditch-attempt-stop-national-womens-history-museum

Arch-conservatives in Congress are trying, and will most likely fail, to stop the establishment of a National Women's History Museum.

From the article:

Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma is currently holding up a defense authorization bill that was passed last week in the House, contending that a public lands package attached to it is too pricey and doesn’t belong in a defense bill. While Coburn and Sen. Ted Cruz have objected to provisions in the bill designating new national wilderness areas, which Cruz calls an “extreme land grab,” they have garnered allies in the Religious Right who object to quite a different provision: the establishment of a bipartisan commission to start planning a National Women’s History Museum on the National Mall.

[yeoman6987]

1. A little more prospective on the story that the title has

First they attached it to the defense budget......does not belong there. And it is expensive. If we can build a huge memorial in NYC from donations, I think we could do even more here. However, it needs it own bill and spending budget.

[ismnotwasm]

2. All kinds of stuff is attached to defense budgets that doesn't belong there

Common Practice. It would be nice to see this supported as a stand alone bill; also not surprising conservative groups take a Woman's history museum down to the whipping post.