WASHINGTON, March 11 -- Sen. Angus King issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Angus King (I-ME), Ranking Member of the Senate National Parks Subcommittee, spoke on the Senate Floor to criticize the Trump Administration's attempts to whitewash American history at our national parks.
The floor speech comes on the heels of a letter (https://www.king.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/oversight_letter_nps.pdf) he sent to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, King requests information pertaining to Executive Order 14253 "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," and Secretarial Order 3431, "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" which together directs the Department to remove or alter properties that present American history ...