Mauricio Tamargo will testify before the U.S. Congress, Natural Resources Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs, on Thursday, July 14, 2011. The Subcommittee is holding an oversight hearing on H.R. 44, the Guam World War II Loyalty Recognition Act, at 10:00 a.m., 1324 Longworth House Office Building. 

In his former capacity as Chairman of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission at the Department of Justice, in 2003 Tamargo also Chaired the Guam War Claims Review Commission. Tamargo is now being ask by Congress to explain the work of the Review Commission. He will outline the findings and recommendations of the Commission’s final report which was presented to the Department of Interior on June 9, 2004. For more information and a copy of the report, please visit the Department of Interior website.

Tamargo retired from federal service in 2010 and is a co-founder of Poblete Tamargo. Poblete Tamargo is a law and public policy law firm based in D.C. which offers its clients premium legal and public policy solutions. The firm concentrates on providing regulatory litigation and public policy counsel.

For further information on this upcoming Congressional hearing, please visit the Natural Resouces Committee’s website.