[StBernard] St. Bernard Parish President Craig Taffaro to Testify on Capitol Hill Wednesday

[Westley Annis]

St. Bernard Parish President Craig Taffaro to Testify on Capitol Hill
Wednesday

Kevin Costner also to testify at House Homeland Security Hearing on
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

 

St. Bernard Parish President Craig P. Taffaro, Jr., has been invited to
testify in Washington DC on Wednesday, September 22, at 10 a.m. in front of
the House Committee on Homeland Security on the Department of Homeland
Security’s leadership in disaster planning and response related to the
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. 

 

Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security,
will convene the full committee hearing, and Congressman Anh "Joseph" Cao,
Deputy Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, will
co-chair the committee hearing. Cao will serve as Ranking Member and
Co-Chairman in the absence of Rep. Peter King. Actor Kevin Costner is among
witnesses scheduled to testify.  

 

The hearing, entitled “DHS Planning and Response: Preliminary Lessons from
Deepwater Horizon,” will be an opportunity to examine the Department’s
preparation and authority in carrying out its incident management role as
well as its responsibilities under the National Response Framework as the
coordinator for all agencies involved in a Federal response effort. The
hearing will be in 311 Cannon House Office Building.


Witnesses on the first panel:

*	Kevin Costner, Private Citizen 
*	Craig Paul Taffaro, Jr., President, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana 

Witnesses on the second panel: 

*	Richard M. Chávez, Acting Director, Operations Coordination and
Planning, Department of Homeland Security 
*	RADM. Peter Neffenger, Deputy National Incident Commander, Deepwater
Horizon Oil Spill Response 
*	Richard L. Skinner, Inspector General, Department of Homeland
Security 
*	William O. Jenkins, Jr., Director, Homeland Security and Justice
Issues, Government Accountability Office 


To watch the testimony live, via the Internet, visit
http://homeland.house.gov/index.asp, and click on the Hearing Webcast button
on the left side of the page during the hearing. For more information about
the Growth and Recovery of St. Bernard Parish, visit www.sbpg.net.  

 

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