MIKULSKI TO CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION ON INDIVIDUAL ASSISTANCE FOR MARYLAND AT APPROPRIATIONS HEARING

MIKULSKI TO CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION ON INDIVIDUAL ASSISTANCE FOR MARYLAND AT APPROPRIATIONS HEARING EXAMINING IMPACT OF SUPER-STORM SANDY

Senator Mikulski will speak and question witnesses

Hearing will be streamed live at www.appropriations.senate.gov

WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 at 10:00 a.m., U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, will speak at a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security entitled “Hurricane Sandy: Response and Recovery – Progress and Challenges.” Senator Mikulski will call for immediate action for communities on the Eastern Shore that are still suffering in the wake of Super-Storm Sandy.

The hearing will include two panels of witnesses. The first panel will consist of Senators from impacted states. The second panel will include the Honorable Shaun Donovan, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Honorable Craig Fugate, Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

WHO:

U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) 

Members of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security

Members of Impacted States

The Honorable Shaun Donovan, Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

The Honorable Craig Fugate, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency

WHEN:

10:00 a.m., Wednesday, December 5, 2012

WHERE:

Dirksen Senate Office Building

Room 192

Washington, D.C. 20510