SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL PARKS, FORESTS AND PUBLIC LANDS
AND
SUBCOMMITTEE ON FISH, WILDLIFE AND OCEANS
Lecture Hall
Science, Engineering and Technology Building (SET-B)
University of Texas-Brownsville
Monday, April 28, 2008
10:00 a.m.

JOINT OVERSIGHT FIELD HEARING ON:

• "Walls and Waivers: Expedited Construction of the Southern Border Wall and the Collateral Impacts on Communities and the Environment"

WITNESSES & TESTIMONY:

Panel I

Rick Schultz
National Borderland Coordinator
Department of the Interior

Ronald D. Vitiello
Chief Patrol Agent
Rio Grande Valley Sector
Office of Border Patrol
Customs and Border Patrol
United States Department of Homeland Security

The Honorable Chad Foster
Mayor
City of Eagle Pass, Texas

Ned Norris Jr.
Chairman
Tohono O’odham Nation

Juliet V. Garcia, Ph.D
President
University of Texas at Brownsville
and Southmost College

Panel II

The Most Rev. Raymundo J. Pena
Bishop of Brownsville

Betty Perez
Local private land owner

Rosemary Jenks
Director
Government Relations
NumbersUSA

Joan Neuhaus Schaan
Executive Director
Houston-Harris County Regional Homeland Security Advisory Council

Panel III

John McClung
President and CEO
Texas Produce Association

Ken Merritt
Private Citizen

Laura Peterson
Senior Policy Advisor
Taxpayers for Common Sense

Zack Taylor
Supervisory Border Patrol Agent (Retired)