Chairman Calvert Holds Budget Hearing with Interior Secretary Sally Jewell

Today, Interior and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Ken Calvert (CA-42) held a budget hearing with Interior Secretary Sally Jewell concerning the Fiscal Year 2015 budget request for the Interior Department. The hearing was Rep. Calvert's first since being named Chairman of the Interior and Environment Subcommittee last year.

"The budget presented today by Secretary Jewell is a starting point for the Subcommittee's consideration of our FY15 bill," said Chairman Calvert. "My colleagues and I are looking forward to hearing from the other agencies funded in our bill as we move towards crafting a bill that is fiscally responsible, sensibly manages our federal lands, and unleashes the economic benefits of domestic energy resources."

To read Chairman Calvert's opening statement click HERE.

The Interior and Environment Subcommittee has jurisdiction over the Department of the Interior (except for the Bureau of Reclamation and Central Utah Project), the Environmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service (USDA), the Indian Health Service, the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, the Smithsonian Institution, and other agencies.

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