The House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife, led by Del. Madeleine Z. Bordallo (D-GU), will hold a legislative hearing on the following bills:

• H.R. 4339 (Sablan): To encourage students from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands to become civically engaged through local and Federal government fellowships. "Dr. Rita Hocog Inos Fellowship Act"
  
  
• H.R. 6015 (Bordallo): To require the Director of the Bureau of Economic Analysis of the Department of Commerce to publish certain economic data regarding territories and Freely Associated States, and for other purposes.

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Subject:
House Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife
Legislative Hearing on H.R. 4339 and H.R. 6015

When:
Thursday, September 16, 2010, at 10:00 a.m.

Where:
Room 1324 Longworth House Office Building

Witnesses:

The Honorable Anthony M. Babauta
Assistant Secretary of the Interior (Insular Areas)
U.S. Department of the Interior

Mr. Howard P. Willens, Esq.
Counsel to the Governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas (CNMI)

Mr. Lamonte J. “Jim” Beighley
Vice Chairman
Guam Visitors Bureau

Mr. Anthony Pellegrino
Former Member, CNMI Board of Education
Saipan, CNMI

Opening Statement:
Chairwoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo