The hearing will explore both the damages suffered by the tourism
industry in the Gulf region and the process by which the independent
Gulf Coast Claims Facility will evaluate tourism-related claims.
Witnesses
- Kenneth Feinberg, Administrator, Gulf Coast Claims Facility
- Roger Dow, President and Chief Executive Officer, U.S. Travel
Association
- Rip Daniels, Chief Executive Officer/Manager,
WJZD-FM; Vice President, Mississippi Gulf
Coast Tourism Commission
- Herb Malone, President and Chief Executive Officer, Alabama Gulf Coast
Convention and Visitors Bureau
- Keith Overton, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer,
Tradewinds Resort; Chairman, Florida Restaurant and Lodging
Association
- Ralph O. Brennan, President, Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group,
LLC
House Energy and Commerce Committee
Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection Subcommittee
2123 Rayburn
07/27/2010 at 10:00AM
The hearing addressed implementation efforts in transportation programs
under the Committee’s jurisdiction, including highways, bridges, public
transportation, rail, and aviation.
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
2167 Rayburn
07/27/2010 at 10:00AM
Panel 1
- Don Briggs, President, Louisiana Oil and Gas Association
- Dr. Joseph R. Mason, Chair of Banking, E.J. Ourso School of Business
Louisiana State University
- Ethan Treese, Vice President, Federal Government Solutions Dun and
Bradstree
Panel 2
- Leslie Bertucci, Owner, R&D Enterprises
- Troy Lillie, Former Refinery Employee, Exxon Mobil
- Kimberly Nastasi, CEO, Mississippi Gulf
Coast Chamber of Commerce
- Charlotte Randolph, President, Lafourche Parish (Louisiana)
Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee
106 Dirksen
07/27/2010 at 10:00AM
House Agriculture Committee
1300 Longworth
07/14/2010 at 02:00PM
H.R. 3534 (Rahall): To provide greater efficiencies, transparency,
returns, and accountability in the administration of Federal mineral and
energy resources by consolidating administration of various Federal
energy minerals management and leasing programs into one entity to be
known as the Office of Federal Energy and Minerals Leasing of the
Department of the Interior, and for other purposes. “Consolidated Land,
Energy, and Aquatic Resources Act of 2009”
House Natural Resources Committee
1324 Longworth
07/14/2010 at 10:00AM
On Tuesday, July 13, 2010, the Education and Labor Committee will hold a
hearing on “H.R. 5663, the Miner Safety and Health Act of 2010.” H.R.
5663 will bring our nation’s mine health and safety laws up to date,
give MSHA the ability to effectively protect
miners’ lives, hold mine operators accountable for putting their workers
in unnecessary danger, and expand protections to all other workers by
strengthening OSHA.
In April, 29 miners were killed at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch Mine
in Montcoal, West Virginia, the worst coal mine disaster in America in
40 years. In the last decade, more than 600 miners have died while
working in our nation’s mines.
Witnesses
PANEL I
- Joe Main, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health,
U.S. Department of Labor
- Dr. David Michaels, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational
Safety and Health, U.S. Department of Labor
- Patricia Smith, Solicitor of Labor, U.S. Department of Labor
PANEL II
- Larry Grayson, Professor of Mine Engineering Penn State University
- Lynn Rhinehart, General Counsel, AFL-CIO
- Cecil Roberts, President United Mine Workers of America
- Jonathan Snare partner, Morgan Lewis testifying on behalf of the
Coalition for Workplace Safety
- Stanley “Goose” Stewart, coal miner, Chickasaw Village W.Va.
- Bruce Watzman, Senior Vice President for Regulatory Affairs, National
Mining Association
House Education and Labor Committee
2175 Rayburn
07/13/2010 at 03:00PM
The purpose of this field hearing is to examine the command structure,
including roles and responsibilities, for the response to the Deepwater
Horizon Oil Spill, which was deemed a spill of National Significance.
- Col. Michael Edmonston, Deputy Secretary, Superintendent of State
Police, Public Safety Services, Louisiana Department of Public Safety
& Corrections
- Frank V. Hibbard, Mayor, Clearwater, Florida
- Rear Admiral Peter V. Neffenger, Deputy National Incident Commander,
U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security
- Juliette N. Kayyem, Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs,
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Ray Dempsey, Vice President of Strategy, BP America
Louisiana Supreme Court Building
400 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA
House Homeland Security Committee
Management, Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee
07/12/2010 at 02:00PM