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Monday, August 24, 2009
Rep. Fallin to Host Congressional Energy Hearing at OSU-Tulsa
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TULSA – U.S. Representative Mary Fallin, R-Oklahoma City, will host a congressional field hearing tomorrow at OSU-Tulsa that will examine how national energy policy affects small businesses.

The hearing, which will take place at 10 a.m. in the B.S. Roberts Room, will be conducted by the House Small Business Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight. Fallin is the subcommittee’s ranking member.

Rep. Jason Altmire, D-Pa., and Rep. John Sullivan, R-Tulsa, are also scheduled to attend. Altmire serves as chair of the subcommittee, while Sullivan is a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Climate Change.

The subcommittee’s goal is to explore how small businesses are affected by the rising costs of energy and how national energy policy can help small businesses in the manufacturing or construction industry.

Possible topics of discussion for the field hearing include “cap-and-trade” energy legislation; energy independence and U.S. energy production; Environmental Protection Agency regulations related to small businesses; and other energy policy that affects small businesses, both in the energy sector and outside the energy sector.

Witnesses scheduled to appear include David House of Jireh Resources; Bob Sullivan of Sullivan & Co.; Larry Mocha of Air Power Systems Co.; Joe Robson of Robson Co., and the chairman of the National Association of Home Builders; Mike Terry, president of the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association; and Mike Bergey of Bergey Windpower Co.

OSU-Tulsa is located just north of downtown at 700 N. Greenwood Avenue, near I-244 and Detroit Avenue. For more information, call 918-594-8000.

News Contacts:

Mary Bea Drummond
918-594-8223

Trish McBeath
918-594-8360

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