From a State Committee Release:The health care reform hearings conducted by congressional committees and subcommittees will include an ad-hoc debate between two New Jersey political leaders, Senator Joseph Vitale, a leading health care advocate in the Garden State, and Assemblyman Jay Webber, who was selected as the next chairman of the New Jersey Republican Party by Chris Christie, the GOP's gubernatorial nominee.
Senator Vitale and Assemblyman Webber will join with others before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health as part of a panel "discussion with differing opinions" on State, Local & Tribal Views of health care reform. This will be the 2nd of three days of hearings before Congressman Pallone's committee, which he talked about on Blue Jersey Radio last night. There will be 3 panels testifying at the hearing, which begins at 1pm. Here is the list of people joining them:The Honorable Michael O. Leavitt, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
The Honorable Joseph Vitale, Chairman, Committee on Health, Human Services, and Senior Citizens, New Jersey State Senate
W. Ron Allen, Chairman, Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe
The Honorable Jay Webber, State Assembly, State of New Jersey
Raymond C. Scheppach, Ph.D., Executive Director, National Governors Association
Robert S. Freeman, Deputy Executive Director, CenCal Health, California Association of Health Insuring Organizations
Ron Pollack, Executive Director, Families USA
The release says that the hearing will be webcast at energycommerce.house.gov, in case you want to follow along. |
