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Portland philanthropist Arlene Schnitzer is making a $10 million donation to the Portland Art Museum.

Also Tuesday, Bonamici announced a $750,000 grant from the National Endowment for Humanities, that will go toward the museum's campaign to connect its two buildings with the Mark Rothko Pavilion as well as its endowment.

The Portland Art Museum has accepted a $10 million gift, marking the largest contribution from an individual donor in the museum's 127 years.

Approximately 200 people, including Gov. Kate Brown and U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, attended the announcement at the museum Tuesday morning.

Bonamici at the event also announced a $750,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of the Museum's Connections Campaign.

A delegation of congressional leaders followed U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Brownsville, into Matamoros to witness conditions in the camp of asylum seekers just past the Gateway International Bridge on Friday.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-FL, called the conditions in Matamoros "heinous human rights abuses". Another representative, Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, told reporters that she spoke to a woman from El Salvador whose sick baby was lying on the floor of a tent.

Calling it "inhumane," "morally unjust," "heinous," "disgraceful," a "travesty," "horrific" and "heartbreaking," 17 Democratic members of Congress described with great emotion the "disregard for our fellow brothers and sisters" they say they saw on Friday morning as they toured a squalid migrant refugee camp across from Brownsville, Texas.

One-by-one, members of a congressional delegation described the squalid conditions faced by the asylum-seeking families and children they met in Matamoros, Mexico, where the U.S. has returned thousands of migrants, requiring them to wait for their U.S. immigration court hearings on the Mexican side of the border.

A delegation of congressional members led by Hispanic Caucus chair Joaquin Castro and Rep.