ms. hayden: yes, in both houses. susan: are they active? ms. hayden: they are active. what has been hard in working in congress is the interest of most of the legislators in history. you are both nodding, because you have noticed that. it was striking during my confirmation process, seeing how many things were on loan, or how much legislators knew about history, and wanted to cement their place in history. susan: what is your operating budget? how much of that is federally subsidized? ms. hayden: just about all of it. $632 million. susan: you do accept donations as well . dr. hayden: the smithsonian has done a wonderful job of working with patriotic philanthropy. the library has been relatively new to that. the fact that we are in this room was a gift of mrs. coolidge with the flutes and stradivarius instruments. susan: first lady coolidge? ms. hayden: no. susan: i don't know how far back the history went. what about the archivist? to whom do you report? >> the president. we have oversight committees in both the house and senate. our main communication is with the whit

ms. hayden: they are active. what has been hard in working in congress is the interest of most of the legislators in history. it was striking during my confirmation process, seen how much the legislators knew about cement and wanted to their place in history. susan: what is your operating budget? how much of that is federally subsidized? ms. hayden: just about all of it. $632 million. the smithsonian has done a wonderful job of working with patriotic philanthropy. the library has been relatively new to that. the fact that we are in this coolidgea gift of mrs. with these stradivarius instruments. susan: first lady coolidge? ms. hayden: no. susan: i don't know how far back the history what. susan: to whom do you report? dr. skorton: the president. we have oversight committees in both the house and senate. our main communication is with the white house. susan: what is your operating budget? is it all federally funded? dr. skorton: about $450 million. each of the presidential libraries, as well as the flagship nation

ms. hayden: the institution will be at your fingertips. it will be a place where you can have the experience of looking , ashe original documents well as having all types of experiences with whatever items we have. you can have access to the library of congress wherever you are. >> massive amounts of digitization will allow us to do a better job of connecting the 3 institutions in terms of user experience. be not just one of us, but a suite of information. we will be much more electronic and collaborative. susan: beyond your institutions? all of us will be interconnected. this has been a quick 50 minutes. thank you very much. i would like to invite you to the future again. thank you for the time you have given us today. ♪ >> c-span's washington journal, lived with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up sunday morning, university of maryland economics professor will discuss the current state of the economy 2016 comes to a close, and his predictions for the year ahead. a correspondent for national journal will preview the upcoming