Joint Senate Subcommittee Hearing on WNS
On July 8, 2009, the Senate Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife and the Subcommittee on Oversight (of the Committee on Environment and Public Works) held a joint hearing on "Threats to Native Wildlife Species"
Click on the image above to watch the entire hearing.
It will open in RealPlayer, which can be downloaded here.You may also go directly to these key time points in the recording:
11:50 Sen. Lautenberg speaks on WNS
16:10 Sen. Gillebrand speaks on WNS
40:50 Gary Frazer on WNS
43:10 Gary Frazer on WNS
1:02:45 Lautenberg questions Frazer
on WNS management and funding
Sen. Benjamin Cardin (D-MD)
Chairman, Water and Wildlife
SubcommitteeSen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
Chairman, Oversight Subcommittee
Water and Wildlife SubcommitteeSen. Mike Crapo (R-ID)
Ranking member,
Water and Wildlife SubcommitteeSen. John Barrasso (R-WY)
Ranking member,
Oversight SubcommitteeSenators Carl Levin and Bill Nelson testified.
Sen. Kirsten Gillebrand (D-NY)
Oversight Subcommittee
Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI)
Read his statement here
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL)
Read his statement here
Sen. Frank Lautenberg
(D-NJ)
Water and Wildlife Subcommittee
Read his WNS statement here.
Gary Frazer
Assistant Director for Fisheries and Habitat Conservation
United States Fish and Wildlife Service
Read his testimony here
Bill Clay
Acting Associate Administrator
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
United States Department
of Agriculture
Read his testimony here