Barbour To Speak At House Hearing On BP Oil Spill

Barbour To Speak At House Hearing On Oil Spill

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, once considered a challenger to President Barack Obama, heads a list of witnesses at a House investigative hearing where Republicans are expected to criticize the Obama administration’s response to the Gulf oil spill last year and its handling of recovery operations.

Barbour, who has dropped out of the GOP presidential race, was to tell the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday how his state has been affected by the April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion that killed 11 workers and sent millions of gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico.

AP
5/2/11