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Subcommittee hearing.

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Witnesses:

Panel I

• Crystal Williams, Treasurer, United South and Eastern Tribes Sovereignty Protection Fund
• Abigail Echo-Hawk, Director, Urban Indian Health Institute
• Jason Schlender, Executive Administrator, Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission

Panel II

• Monique Martin, Vice President of Intergovernmental Affairs, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
• Ileen Sylvester, Executive Vice President for Executive and Tribal Services, Southcentral Foundation

Panel III

• Reno Franklin, Chair, California Rural Indian Health Board
• Inder Wadhwa, Chief Executive Officer, Northern Valley Indian Health
• Teresa Sanchez, Health Board Delegate, Riverside-San Bernardino County Indian Health Inc.

Panel IV

• Jerilyn Church, President, Chief Executive Officer, Great Plains Tribal Leaders Health Board
• Anthony Locklear, Interim Chief Executive Officer, National Indian Health Board
• Robyn Sunday-Allen, Chief Executive Officer, National Council of Urban Indian Health

Panel V

• Anhiwake Rose, President, Chief Executive Officer, American Indian Higher Education Consortium
• Jason Dropik, Executive Director, National Indian Education Association
• Toni Tsatoke-Mule, Executive Director, Kiowa Education Agency and Higher Education

Panel VI

• Cecilia Fire Thunder, Chairwoman, Oglala Lakota Nation Education Coalition
• Jordan Etcitty, Executive Director, Diné bi Olta School Board Association
• Aurene Martin, Board of Directors Member, National Indian Child Welfare Association

Panel VII

• Greg Abrahamson, Vice-Chair, Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board
• Esther Lucero, President, Chief Executive Officer, Seattle Indian Health Board
• Lloyd Miller, Council, National Tribal Contract Support Coalition

Panel VIII

• Jeremy Takala, Chair, Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
• Ed Johnstone, Chairman, Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
• Heather Dawn Thompson, Vice President, Native Nations Conservation and Food Systems

Panel IX

• Austin Lowes, Tribal Chairman, Chippewa Ottawa Resource Authority, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians
• Mark Macarro, President, National Congress of American Indians
• Cody Desautel, President, Intertribal Timber Council
• Cory Blankenship, Executive Director, Native American Finance Officers Association

02/27/2025 at 09:00AM

Full committee business meeting to vote on the nominations of:

• Troy Edgar to be Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• Dan Bishop to be Deputy Director, Office of Management and Budget

Chair Rand Paul scheduled the vote only two days after the nomination hearing, instead of the standard week.

Democrats boycotted the business meeting. Ranking member Gary Peters (D-Mich.) was the only Democrat to attend.

The vote to support Bishop was 8-1, Peters casting the vote in opposition. Bishop’s nomination now goes before the Senate Budget Committee.

02/27/2025 at 09:00AM

Stand with USAID until the end. Public servants deserve respect.

Everyone is encouraged to show up and bear witness.

The USAID “pick up your belongings tomorrow” directive is insane, abusive and wildly illegal.

The green light to strip USAID down to the bone was given by Trump-appointed judge Carl Nichols, who ruled last Friday that Trump’s unconstitutional acts to destroy the agency didn’t threaten anyone with irreparable harm.

USAID has made final decisions to cancel nearly 5,800 awards, while keeping more than 500, and that the State Department has canceled about 4,100 awards, while keeping about 2,700.

The time to stand up is now.

1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Thursday 7:30 AM - 6 PM
Friday 7:30 AM - 4 PM

02/27/2025 at 07:30AM

Subcommittee hearing.

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Witnesses:

Panel I

• Grant Johnson, President, Prairie Island Indian Community
• Anna Miller, Tribal Council Secretary, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Grand Traverse Tribal Council
• Stephen Selam, Executive Secretary, Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation
• Sheilah Bray, Vice-Chair, Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation

Panel II

• Jarred-Michael Erickson, Chairman, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
• William “Bill” Iyall, Chairman, Cowlitz Indian Tribe
• W. Ron Allen, Tribal Chairman, Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe and Pacific Salmon Commission

Panel III

• Quintin Swanson, Chairman, Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe
• Tom Strong, Vice-Chairman, Skokomish Indian Tribe
• Steve De Los Angeles, Vice-Chairman, Snoqualmie Tribe

Panel IV

• Eric White, Chairman, Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians
• Glen Gobin, Council Member, Tulalip Tribes
• Edwina “Winnie” Johnson-Graham, Vice-Chairwoman, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe

Panel V

• Robert Blanchard, Executive Director, Tribal Chairman, Bad River Tribe
• Buu Nygren, President, Navajo Nation
• Tehassi Hill, Chairman, Oneida Nation
• Guy Capoeman, President, Quinault Indian Nation

02/26/2025 at 01:30PM

A subcommittee hearing entitled “America Last: How Foreign Aid Undermined U.S. Interests Around the World.” Originally titled “How Foreign Aid Lost Its Way.”

USAID distributed $44 billion to over 160 countries in FY 2023. U.S. foreign aid has significant implications for global stability. DOGE has recently lawlessly hacked USAID.

Witnesses:

• Tyler O’Neil, Managing Editor, The Daily Signal
• Max Primorac, Senior Research Fellow / The Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, The Heritage Foundation
• Gregg Roman, Executive Director, Middle East Forum
• Noam Unger (Minority Witness), Director of the Sustainable Development and Resilience Initiative, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

DOGE claims have been found repeatedly to be wildly overstated, false and misleading.

02/26/2025 at 11:00AM

Subcommittee hearing entitled “Examining the Biden Administration’s Energy and Environment Spending Push.”

Hearing memo

Witnesses:

• Jonathan Black, Chief Advisor for Strategic Planning and Program Oversight, Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Energy
• J. Alfredo Gómez, Director, Natural Resources and Environment team, U.S. Government Accountability Office
• Nicole Murley, Acting Inspector General, Office of Inspector General, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Frank Rusco, Director, Natural Resources and Environment team, U.S. Government Accountability Office

02/26/2025 at 10:30AM

Full committee hearing.

Nominees:

• Dean Sauer, to be Solicitor General of the United States
• Harmeet Dhillon, to be an Assistant Attorney General
• Aaron Reitz, to be an Assistant Attorney General

02/26/2025 at 10:15AM

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a nominations hearing for Michael Kratsios, nominee to be Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Mark Meador, nominee to be a Federal Trade Commissioner, at 10:00 AM EST on Tuesday, February 25, 2025.

Nominees:

• Michael Kratsios, of South Carolina, to be Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Mark Meador, of Virginia, to be a Federal Trade Commissioner

Kratsios was a Trump technology advisor and is now managing director at Scale AI, Inc., which specializes in training data for AI. He met with Elon Musk in December.

Kratsios, 38, grew up in South Carolina and graduated magna cum laude in 2008 from Princeton with a Bachelor of Arts degree in politics. He has no other degrees. While in college, he was an intern for Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). After school, he was a Wall Street analyst before working in an investment fund run by Peter Thiel.

In 2024, the Pentagon chose Scale AI to aid its testing and evaluation of A.I. models that might one day help warfighters make decisions.

Meador’s confirmation would give the FTC a Republican majority.

02/26/2025 at 10:00AM

Full committee hearing.

Witnesses:

• Russell R McMurry, Commissioner, Georgia Department of Transportation
• Gary Johnson, Vice President, Granite Construction
• Michael Carroll P.E., Deputy Managing Director, Office of Transportation and Infrastructure Systems, The City of Philadelphia

02/26/2025 at 10:00AM

On Wednesday, February 26, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., in room 1324 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries will hold an oversight hearing titled “Evaluating the Implementation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act.”

Hearing memo

Witnesses:

• Parker Moore, Principal, Beveridge & Diamond PC, Washington, DC
• Paul Weiland, Partner, Nossaman LLC, Irvine, California
• John Vecchione, Senior Litigation Counsel, New Civil Liberties Alliance, Arlington, Virginia
• Daniel Rohlf, Professor of Law, Lewis and Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon [Minority witness]

02/26/2025 at 10:00AM