Committee on Environment and Public Works
Interpreting the Effect of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Recent Decision in the Joint Cases of Rapanos v. United States and Carabell v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on “The Waters of the United States”
August 1, 2006
406 Dirksen, 2:30 PM
Opening Statements:
Sen. Lincoln Chafee, of Rhode Island.
Sen. James M. Inhofe, of Oklahoma.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, of New York.
Sen. James M. Jeffords, of Vermont.
Sen. Frank Lautenberg, of New Jersey.
Witnesses:
Hon. Ben Grumbles
Assistant Administrator
Office of Water
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Hon. John Paul Woodley, Jr.
Assistant Secretary for Civil Works
U.S. Department of Army
John C. Cruden
Deputy Assistant Attorney General
Environment and Natural Resources Division
U. S. Department of Justice
Dr. Jonathan Adler
Associate Professor of Law
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Dr. William W. Buzbee
Professor of Law
Director, Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program
Emory Law School
Chuck Clayton
Immediate Past President
Izaac Walton League of America
Keith Kisling
National Wheat Growers and
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association