Tomorrow, Wednesday, May 14, at 3:30 p.m. ET, U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaiʻi), Vice Chairman of the Committee, will lead a hearing entitled “Delivering Essential Public Health and Social Services to Native Americans – Examining Federal Programs serving Native Americans across the Operating Divisions at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services” before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.
Event Details:
WHAT:
Oversight Hearing on HHS programs serving American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiians
WITNESSES:
- THE HONORABLE JANET ALKIRE, Chairwoman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Fort Yates, North Dakota (in-person)
- THE HONORABLE LONI GRENINGER, Vice Chair, Jamestown S’Klallam Tribal Council, Sequim, Washington (in-person)
- MS. MELISSA CHARLIE, Executive Director, Fairbanks Native Association, Fairbanks, Alaska (in-person)
- MS. LUCY SIMPSON, Executive Director, National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, Lame Deer, Montana (in-person)
- MS. SHERI-ANN DANIELS, Chief Executive Officer, Papa Ola Lōkahi, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi(in-person)
WHEN:
TOMORROW, May 14, 3:30PM ET
WHERE:
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room: 628
Live video of the event will be available here.
Ahead of Wednesday’s hearing and in accordance with this Committee’s constitutional obligation to perform oversight over the Department and its components, Chairman Murkowski and Vice Chairman Schatz sent a letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to raise concerns about the March 27 HHS announcement on dramatic restructuring in accordance with President Trump’s Executive Order, “Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ Workforce Optimization Initiative.”
The March 27 announcement from the HHS can be found here.
The Senators’ full letter can be found here.