Chairman Towns Announces Hearing to
Examine Wartime Contracting Commission Report

WASHINGTON – Chairman Edolphus “Ed” Towns (D-NY) today announced that the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will hold a hearing on Thursday, September 23, 2010 entitled, “Transition in Iraq:  Is the State Department Prepared to Take the Lead?”  The hearing will examine issues raised by the Commission on Wartime Contracting’s report, released on July 12, 2010, entitled, “Better Planning for Defense-to-State Transition in Iraq Needed to Avoid Mistakes and Waste.”  The Committee will receive testimony from the co-chairmen of the Commission, Christopher Shays and Michael Thibault and the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) Stuart Bowen.

The hearing will take place at 10:00 a.m. in room HVC-210 of the Capitol Visitor Center.  Doors open to credentialed members of the media at 9:00 a.m. and to the general public at 9:45 a.m.  A live webcast of the hearing will be available on the committee’s website: oversight.house.gov.

The witnesses invited to testify include:

The Honorable Christopher Shays
Co-Chairman
Commission on Wartime Contracting

Mr. Michael J. Thibault
Co-Chairman
Commission on Wartime Contracting

Mr. Stuart W. Bowen, Jr.
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction

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Documents and Links

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Witness Invitation Letter for Christopher Shays and Michael Thibault.

Witness Invitation Letter for SIGIR Stuart Bowen.