Florida GOP Angles To Host Trump’s Presidential Library
Florida Politics reports:
New legislation could give the state government control over presidential libraries, in a move seemingly designed to stop local interference against a future facility for President-elect Donald Trump. Rep. Alex Andrade will carry the House version of the legislation. “I think it’s brilliant,” the Panhandle Republican told Florida Politics.
Central to the legislative premise is the idea that such libraries are “unique national institutions designated to house, preserve, and make accessible the records of former presidents.”
The bill adopts the federal definition of a presidential library adopted federally in 1986 by an act of Congress back when Ronald Reagan was the Chief Executive, encompassing “research facilities and museum facilities,” and enshrining them as part of the National Archives system.
Read the full article.
Andrade previously appeared
Leave a Reply