COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES
1324 Longworth House Office Building
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
10:00 a.m.

OVERSIGHT HEARING ON:

• "Crisis of Confidence: The Political Influence of the Bush Administration on Agency Science and Decision-Making"

WITNESSES & TESTIMONY:

Panel I

The Honorable Mike Thompson, (CA-1)

The Honorable Greg Walden, (OR-2)

The Honorable John T. Doolittle, (CA-4)

The Honorable Wally Herger, (CA-2)

Panel II

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 III

H. Dale Hall
Director
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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
U.S. Department of Commerce
* Accompanied by Rod McInnis, Acting Regional Administrator, National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Region

Panel IV

William M. Lewis, Jr.
Associate Director
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

Mike Kelly
Former USFWS and NOAA Fisheries Biologist