{"id":2113,"date":"2011-11-17T18:04:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T18:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2011-11-17T18:04:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T18:04:51","slug":"aic-action-needed-transportation-museums-targeted-in-u-s-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2011\/11\/17\/aic-action-needed-transportation-museums-targeted-in-u-s-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"AIC Action Needed &#8211; Transportation Museums Targeted in U.S. Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is scheduled to consider a transportation reauthorization bill, the \u201cMoving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21),\u201d that would <strong>eliminate<\/strong> the current authorization category specifically dedicated to supporting transportation museums within the Transportation Enhancements (TE) program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTargeting transportation museums in this way represents a fundamental misunderstanding about the role that museums play in our communities,\u201d said <strong>AAM President Ford W. Bell<\/strong>. \u201cThis is a misguided effort, especially if the goal of the legislation is to increase states\u2019 flexibility in administering TE funds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since 1992, the Transportation Enhancements Program has provided more than $110 million to support programs in transportation-related museums, and has allowed states and communities to rehabilitate bridges and tunnels, restore historic structures and revitalize local historic districts.<\/p>\n<p>The Committee is scheduled to take up the bill for consideration on <strong>November 9<\/strong> and AAM is continuing to monitor ongoing developments.<\/p>\n<p>Please consider taking 5 minutes to send an email to your Senators <strong>today<\/strong>. You can use the email generating tool on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.congressweb.com\/cweb2\/index.cfm\/siteid\/AAM\/action\/TakeAction.Contact\/lettergroupid\/35\">AAM website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is scheduled to consider a transportation reauthorization bill, the \u201cMoving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21),\u201d that would eliminate the current authorization category specifically dedicated to supporting transportation museums within the Transportation Enhancements (TE) program. \u201cTargeting transportation museums in this way represents a fundamental misunderstanding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2011\/11\/17\/aic-action-needed-transportation-museums-targeted-in-u-s-senate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AIC Action Needed &#8211; Transportation Museums Targeted in U.S. Senate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outreach-and-advocacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}