Witness List: Senate Indian Affairs Committee budget hearing

Tuesday, March 6, 2012  

UPDATE #2: The hearing has been pushed to 3:30pm due to votes on the floor.

UPDATE: The hearing will take place at 2pm, according to the committee.

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee is hosting a hearing this Thursday to discuss the Obama administration's fiscal year 2013 budget request for Indian programs.

The hearing takes place at 2:15pm in Room 628 of the Senate Dirksen Building. The witness list follows:

Panel # 1
The Honorable Larry Echo Hawk
Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior

The Honorable Yvette Roubideaux
Director, Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services

Panel # 2
The Honorable Jefferson Keel
President, National Congress of American Indians

The Honorable Fawn Sharp
President, Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians

The Honorable Michell Hicks
Principal Chief, Eastern Band of Cherokee on behalf of United South and Eastern Tribes

The Honorable Robert Shepherd
Chairman, Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, on behalf of Great Plains Tribal Chairman's Association

Committee Notice:
OVERSIGHT HEARING on the President's Fiscal Year 2013 Budget for Native Programs (March 8, 2012)