Date: Thursday, July 28, 2022
Time: 01:00 PM
Location: Longworth House Office Building 1324
Presiding: The Honorable Teresa Leger Fernández, Chair

On Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. ET, in Room 1324 Longworth House Office Building and via Cisco WebEx, the House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States (SCIP) holds a hybrid legislative hearing on the following bill:

• H.R.5549, the Indian Health Service Advance Appropriations Act. The bill amends the Indian Health Care Improvement Act to authorize appropriations for the Indian Health Service for two years in advance.

Panel I
Ms. Elizabeth Fowler [Testimony: PDF]
Acting Director
Indian Health Service
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Rockville, Maryland

Panel II
The Honorable Jonathan Nez [Testimony: PDF]
President, Navajo Nation
Navajo Area Representative, National Indian Health Board
Window Rock, Arizona

The Honorable Kirk Francis [Testimony: PDF]
President
United South and Eastern Tribes Sovereignty Protection Fund
Nashville, Tennessee

The Honorable Fawn Sharp [Testimony: PDF]
President
National Congress of American Indians
Washington, DC

The Honorable Jarred-Michael Erickson [Testimony: PDF]
Chairman
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
Nespelem, Washington

Ms. Maureen Rosette [Testimony: PDF]
Board Member
National Council of Urban Indian Health
Washington, DC

Ms. Alberta Unok [Testimony: PDF]
President and CEO
Alaska Native Health Board
Anchorage, Alaska

Hybrid SCIP Legislative Hearing (naturalresources.house.gov)
Legislative Hearing on H.R. 5549 (docs.house.gov)