By: Brett Zongker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP).- Several members of Congress called Thursday for a presidential commission to study the formation of a “melting pot museum” in Washington to tell the history of immigration and migration that formed the nation. Democratic Virginia Rep. Jim Moran introduced legislation Thursday that calls for studying the creation of a National Museum of the American People without any federal taxpayer funds. The bill had 11 other co-sponsors. “The people of the United States do not have a comprehensive and accurate picture of all the peoples who created and continue to build the nation,” the bill says. Moran has been a critic of the trend toward building individual ethnic museums on the National Mall. Another presidential commission this year called for a Latino history museum to be added to the Smithsonian Institution. “There’s almost an infinite number of museums you could have to represent a near infinite number of peoples that have come