Senate Indian Affairs hearing on drugs and gangs
Thursday, November 19, 2009
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The
Senate Indian Affairs
Committee holds an oversight hearing this afternoon to discuss drug smuggling and gang activity in Indian Country.
The hearing takes place at 2pm in Room 628 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building. 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
DR. WHELSHULA MARTINA (VIA VIDEO CONFERENCE FROM GONZAGA UNIVERSITY)
Director, Healing Lodge of the Seven Nations, Spokane, Washington
Committee Notice:
OVERSIGHT HEARING to examine drug
smuggling and gang activity in Indian country (November 19, 2009)
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