Vance Home Gun, a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, is scheduled to testify at the hearing on Wednesday. Image from White House / YouTube
UPDATE: The business meeting has been moved to 2pm. It will NOT be webcast. The hearing will follow immediately and will be webcast. Also Aaron Payment will be testifying instead of Brian Cladoosby. The Senate Indian Affairs Committee holds its first hearing of the 114th Congress on Wednesday. The hearing will focus on priorities from Indian Country. It takes place immediately following a business meeting at 2:30pm in Room 628 of the Dirksen Senate Building. The witness list follows:
•The Honorable Aaron PaymentCommittee Notices:
Midwest Area Vice President-National Congress of American Indians •Mr. Melvin Monette
President-National Indian Education Association •Mr. Gary Davis
President/CEO-National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development •Ms. Stacy Bohlen
Executive Director-National Indian Health Board •Mr. Vance Homegun
2013 Champion of Change-The Center for Native American Youth
Organizational Business Meeting (January 28, 2015)
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