[IP] House Panel Challenges Smithsonian
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From: Carl Malamud <carl@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: May 11, 2006 5:46:20 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: House Panel Challenges Smithsonian
Hi Dave -
For IP if you wish.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/11/arts/11smit.html
House Panel Challenges Smithsonian
By EDWARD WYATT
Published: May 11, 2006
Bluntly rejecting the Smithsonian Institution's defense of its recent
television deal with Showtime Networks, the House Appropriations
Committee
yesterday demanded further information on the contract, which
members of
the committee have said limits access and "may be incompatible with
the
trust placed in the Smithsonian."
The committee also cut $15 million from the Smithsonian's proposed
budget
and sought a cap on salaries.
....
You'll find another article on the subject in today's Washington
Post:
Smithsonian Salary Cap Passes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/10/
AR2006051002415.html
For those of you interested in the paper trail, you'll find
the letter from the House to the Regents, from the Regents to
the House, and some other entertaining documents, including
a letter to the Chief Justice (who chairs the Regents):
http://www.americanprogress.org/smithsonian
Regards,
Carl
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