Witness list for Senate hearing on drugs and gangs
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
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The
Senate Indian Affairs
Committee holds an oversight hearing on Thursday to discuss drug smuggling and gang activity in Indian Country.
The hearing is the second this year on gangs and their link to crime on reservations. The witness list follows:
Panel 1
MR. ARNOLD MOORIN
Director of High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Program, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
Panel 2
THE HONORABLE IVAN POSEY
Chairman, Eastern Shoshone Tribe
MS. NANCY DOOLEY
Director, Department of Rehabilitation and Supervision Juvenile Division, Gila River Indian Community
MR. MATT HANEY
Chief of Police, Colville Tribes
The business meeting and hearing will take place at 2:15pm in Room 628 of the
Senate Dirksen Office Building. The hearing portion will be archived for webcast.
Committee Notices:
BUSINESS
MEETING on pending committee issues (November 19, 2009)
OVERSIGHT HEARING to examine drug
smuggling and gang activity in Indian country (November 19, 2009)
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