Librarian should be chosen by Congress, House panel agrees

Librarian should be chosen by Congress, House panel agrees

One year after President Donald Trump fired the librarian of Congress, support is growing for a bill that would prevent it from happening again. The heads of both the Library of Congress and the Government Publishing Office should be appointed not by the president but by a congressional commission, lawmakers on the House Administration Committee agreed Thursday. The panel easily advanced, 11-0, a proposal that would make that switch while also o…