This Week’s Congressional Hearings 04-20-09

Congress will be coming back from their two-week Easter Recess tomorrow. The only Committee (among those that I routinely track, anyway) that currently has any chemical facility security related hearings scheduled for this week is the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations is going to conduct their long planned hearing on the SSI Controversy about the Chemical Safety Board public meeting on the Bayer CropScience incident. The hearing is scheduled for tomorrow at noon. Neither the House Homeland Security Committee nor the House Appropriations Committee has any committee hearings posted on their web sites yet for this week. Witness List It really looks like Chairman Stupak (D, MI) is planning on having an interesting hearing. He has certainly got all of the active players in the controversy scheduled to appear before the Subcommittee. The current witness list includes:

The Honorable John D. Rockefeller, IV, US Senator, West Virginia; John Bresland, Chairman, U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board; William Buckner, President and CEO, Bayer CropScience; Nick Crosby, Vice President, Institute Site Operations, Bayer CropScience; Admiral James Watson, U.S. Coast Guard; Joseph Crawford, Chief of Police, City of St. Albans, West Virginia; Michael Dorsey, Chief of Homeland Security and Emergency Response, WV DEP; Kent Carper, President, Kanawha County Commission, Kanawha County, West Virginia; Pamela Nixon, Environmental Advocate, WV DEP

Web Update The House Committee on Energy and Commerce re-did their web site this weekend. It is a lot cleaner look and is certainly professionally done. The change did kill a lot of the old links to their web site. If you have links saved, they probably no longer work. Check out their new web site.