SI Learns of Steps Mandated by Congress
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PrintThe Smithsonian Institution must take steps that include selective hiring freezes, curtailment of equipment purchases for research and collections management, postponement or cancellation of planned exhibitions, cancellation of many free public programs, cutbacks in travel, and the elimination of extended summer hours in order to achieve the 4.3% reduction in its fiscal 1986 federal appropriation required by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act.
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Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
February, 1986