The House Natural Resources Committee, led by Chairman Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), will hold an oversight hearing on "Crisis of Confidence: The Political Influence of the Bush Administration on Agency Science and Decision-Making."

Subject:
House Natural Resources Committee
Oversight Hearing on "Crisis of Confidence: The Political Influence of the Bush Administration on Agency Science and Decision-Making"

When:
Tuesday, July 31, 2007, at 10:00 a.m.

Where:
Room 1324 Longworth House Office Building

Witnesses:
Panel 1

The Honorable Mike Thompson, (D-CA)
The Honorable Greg Walden, (R-OR)
The Honorable John T. Doolittle, (R-CA)
The Honorable Wally Herger, (R-CA)

Panel 2
Mary Kendall, Deputy Inspector General, U.S. Department of the Interior
John M. Seeba, Assistant Inspector General for Auditing, U.S. Department of Commerce

Panel 3
H. Dale Hall, Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), U.S. Department of the Interior
* Accompanied by Steve Thompson, Manager, California/Nevada Operations Office, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Robert W. Johnson, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation

William Hogarth, Assistant Administrator, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Department of Commerce
* Accompanied by Rod McInnis, Acting Regional Administrator, National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Region

Panel 4
William M. Lewis, Jr., Associate Director, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
Mike Kelly, Former USFWS and NOAA Fisheries Biologist

Opening Statement
Chairman Nick J. Rahall
(Watch Chairman Rahall's Opening Statement)