House oversight hearing on Interior’s 2009 budget

The House Natural Resources Committee, led by Chairman Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), will hold an oversight hearing on the “President’s Fiscal Year 2009 Budget Request for the Department of the Interior.”  

The hearing takes place Thursday, February 14. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne is the sole witness.

Rep. Nick Rahall (D-West Virginia), the chairman of the committee, has criticized the budget request. “Funding for the Bureau of Indian Affairs has always been low on the priority list for this White House, but it remains disappointing to see the depths to which the President will plunge in his disregard for basic human needs in Indian Country,” he said this week.

Subject:
House Natural Resources Committee
Oversight Hearing on the “President’s Fiscal Year 2009 Budget Request for the Department of the Interior”

When:
Thursday, February 14, 2008, at 10:00 a.m.
Where:
Room 1324 Longworth House Office Building
Witnesses:
Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, U.S. Department of the Interior

The hearing will be webcast live on the Committee’s Web site at http://resourcescommittee.house.gov.*You must have RealPlayer in order to view the webcast. http://realplayer.com/