I am Danielle bricks the development director here at the Museum of World Treasures in Wichita, Kansas, here with our good friends and museums supporter. Congressman Ron Estes. We just wanted to say a big thank you for everything he has done to support us by participating in the recent stimulus plan that included things that we've recently benefited from that includes our paycheck protection plan stimulus checks and the humanities can't administrative cares Grant that allowed us. To stay functional and open. protecting the livelihood of our employees for the last few months, Congress would you like to speak about this great? Well? Thank you. Danielle. You know it's so great to be able to talk about some of the things we focused on this pandemic has created a lot of risk a lot of problems but it's also creating a lot of opportunities for us as a as a country to face and so you know over the last three months we've passed four different state bills focusing on things from health care to how do we get the economy going. how do we support people that are unemployed and you know when we? People that are looking at talking about the Cares Act in particular, which was the biggest of the bills and we talked about having economic impact payments getting money in people's pockets so that they can spend for their daily needs the paycheck protection program was such an important program for us to look at and and develop because we want to make sure we could keep employees connected with their employer, whether it's a small business, whether it's a nonprofit we want to make sure that the organizations can function, they can still have their employees and they can pay rent and keep the utilities paid so that they can keep the Organization. We could we could get to this pandemic get to the other side and start moving forward. We're not quite there yet. We still got some ways to go in the process. you talked about the the humanities Grant as part of the Care Act, which is so important when we look at so many different things across the country. that's that's really made us what we are as a country and making sure that we can continue those great organizations that great institutions and making sure that we can we can help continue our way of life as we get through this would you like to speak about what maybe coming up in the fall that they're talking about right now. So we're looking at. Now a package and one of the things we'll look at is the extra $600 in unemployment is gonna end at the end of July. I personally think that was it was too much money put into that. you know 60 to 70 percent of people made more money than if they were working in their jobs across the country with surveys you look at for that study. but there will be people still employed. so we're gonna figure out what we do going forward. we're looking at another round of economic impact payments as well as one of those things that we're looking at but also let's. Important and what we're gonna focus on is how do we get the economy back moving again and when we look at things like you know how do you? how do you depreciate your expenses and make sure that the that that helps the business Organization to move forward on the business side? We're also looking at the research and development and it's one of the bills. I'm pushing is let's make that permanent that immediate expense of research and development costs as we're bringing more production back into the United States, some of the things cuz there's so much of the personal protective equipment and the medical drugs being made in China. that's gonna come back in the United States. We wanna make sure that we have good opportunities. To get that moving forward so that people can get back to work and we get our country moving forward again. Great Okay and finally Congressman I have to ask just because we are a history Museum and I know it's a huge passion of yours. Why is military history a passion Well? That's a great question. I mean one of the things we look at is freedom is not free. I mean it takes a lot of work it takes generations of work to get us to where we are in this country. You know my father was an army veteran and so he instilled me a lot of passions around what it takes and the efforts. But if you look back throughout our history through the Revolutionary War, I mean all of the folks who committed to form this country. I mean they were making a major investment. it was considered treason to to battle what at that point in time was the greatest empire on Earth and so at assortment of citizens got together, they risk everything and they made this great country that we have you think about somebody like Dwight Eisenhower, you know the town, a small town boy who went on to lead the world. Freedom through World War two and just a commitment that people had to make to do that And and if we don't study that history, we don't understand how we've got to where we are why we are such a great country and and what we need to do going forward to continue to make it great and you need to make it even better. What a great answer. Yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you for Congressman ass for being here and everybody for coming out to the museum and we're making us a meaning making institution.