S.Amdt. 5371

SA 5371. Ms. LANDRIEU submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 3001, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2009 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

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SEC. 1083. WORLD WAR II MUSEUM FOUNDATION FOR AMERICA'S NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM.

(a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:

(1) The National D-Day Museum was officially designated by the Congress as “America's National World War II Museum” in section 8134 of the Fiscal Year 2004 Defense Appropriations Act (Public Law 108-87; 117 Stat. 1103).

(2) The Museum received the national designation because it is the only museum in the United States that exists for the exclusive purpose of interpreting the American experience during World War II, years 1939-1945, on both the battlefront and the homefront. In doing so, the Museum covers all of the branches of the Armed Forces and the Merchant Marine.

(3) A one-time $50,000,000 grant to the World War II Museum Foundation would provide vital Federal support for the U.S. Freedom Pavilion portion of the current Museum expansion.

(4) The U.S. Freedom Pavilion will be the main entrance building to the main theater, exhibit halls, and other pavilions in the Museum. Among its major exhibits, the Freedom Pavilion will contain an interactive exhibition honoring all of the World War II veterans who have also served the Nation as President or as a member of the Senate or House of Representatives.

(b) Authorization of Appropriations.--Of the amount appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations under section 301(1), $50,000,000 may be made available for a grant to the National World War II Museum Foundation for the museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, designated as America's National World War II Museum by section 8134 of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108-87; 117 Stat. 1103).