{"id":402289,"date":"2026-02-03T09:11:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T15:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/?p=402289"},"modified":"2026-02-03T22:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T04:01:12","slug":"witness-list-making-federal-economic-development-programs-work-in-indian-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2026\/02\/03\/witness-list-making-federal-economic-development-programs-work-in-indian-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness List: Making Federal Economic Development Programs Work in Indian Country"},"content":{"rendered":"
Witness List: Making Federal Economic Development Programs Work in Indian Country<\/div>\r\n
Tuesday, February 3, 2026<\/div>\r\n
Indianz.Com<\/div>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nOn Tuesday, February 3, 2026, at 2pm Eastern, in Room 1324 of the Longworth House Office Building, the House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs, will hold an oversight hearing titled \u201cMaking Federal Economic Development Programs Work in Indian Country.\u201d\r\n

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Witnesses<\/div>\r\nPanel I (Outside Experts)
\r\nThe Honorable Hope Silvas [Testimony: PDF<\/a>]
\r\n Chairwoman
\r\nShivwits Band of Paiutes
\r\n Ivins, Utah\r\n

<\/p>\r\n The Honorable Rodney Butler (Chairman, Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation) [Testimony: PDF<\/a>]
\r\nPresident
\r\nNative American Finance Officers Association Board of Directors
\r\n\r\nWashington, D.C.\r\n

<\/p>\r\n Mr. Haven Harris [Testimony: PDF<\/a>]
\r\nCo-Chair
\r\n Board of Directors, Native American Contractors Association
\r\n Anchorage, Alaska\r\n

<\/p>\r\n Mr. Derrick Watchman (Minority Witness) [Testimony: PDF<\/a>]
\r\nChairman
\r\n The National Center for American Indian\r\nEnterprise Development
\r\n Mesa, Arizona \r\n\r\n

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House Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs Notice<\/div>\r\nOversight Hearing on Making Federal Economic Development Programs Work in Indian Country<\/a> (February 3, 2026)","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The House Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs is holding a hearing titled \u201cMaking Federal Economic Development Programs Work in Indian Country.\u201d See the witness list.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,1,14],"tags":[5366,78,42,346,781,71,6657,49,7087,48,1154,36,868,3305,6993,508],"class_list":["post-402289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-national","category-politics","tag-119th","tag-alaska","tag-arizona","tag-dc","tag-derrick-watchman","tag-economic-development","tag-haven-harris","tag-hnrc","tag-hope-silvas","tag-house","tag-naca","tag-nafoa","tag-ncaied","tag-rodney-butler","tag-shivwits","tag-utah","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-1GEx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/30\/IndianzComDefaultImage.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402289"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403031,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402289\/revisions\/403031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}