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Indian Affairs Committee agenda and witness list
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Filed Under: Politics

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee holds a business meeting and oversight hearing tomorrow.

Three items are on the agenda for the business meeting. They are:
1. Selection of the Chairman and the Vice Chairman of the Committee
2. Adoption of the rules of the Committee for the 111th Congress with approved changes
3. Adoption of the spending resolution for the Committee budget for the 111h Congress

The meeting will be following a hearing on health care. The witness list follows:
Panel 1
THE HONORABLE RON HIS HORSE IS THUNDER
Chairman, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

MS. RACHEL A. JOSEPH
Tribal Co-Chair, National Steering Committee for Reauthorization of the IHCIA, Washington, DC

MR DAVID RAMBEAU
President, National Council of Urban Indian Health, Los Angeles, CA

MS. H. SALLY SMITH
Chair, National Indian Health Board, Washington, DC

MR ANDY JOSEPH
Chair, Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board, Portland, OR

MR MICKEY PEERCY
Director of Health Services, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Durant, OK

Committee Notice:
BUSINESS MEETING to organize the Committee, to be followed immediatly by an OVERSIGHT HEARING on Advancing Indian Health Care (February 5, 2009)

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