Dear Colleagues, The US House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment of the Committee on Science and Technology recently held hearings on "Investigating the Nature of Matter, Energy, Space, and Time". The following prepared statements were presented: Dr. Hugh Montgomery Director, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility http://democrats.science.house.gov/Media/file/Commdocs/hearings/2009/Ene rgy/1oct/Montgomery_Testimony.pdf Dr. Lisa Randall Professor of Physics, Harvard University http://democrats.science.house.gov/Media/file/Commdocs/hearings/2009/Ene rgy/1oct/Randall_Testimony.pdf Dr. Piermaria Oddone Director, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory http://democrats.science.house.gov/Media/file/Commdocs/hearings/2009/Ene rgy/1oct/Oddone_Testimony.pdf Dr. Dennis Kovar Director, Office of High Energy Physics, U.S. Department of Energy http://democrats.science.house.gov/Media/file/Commdocs/hearings/2009/Ene rgy/1oct/Kovar_Testimony.pdf A video webcast of the meeting, including a question and answer session at the end, is available at: http://science.edgeboss.net/wmedia/science/scitech09/100109.wvx The American Institute of Physics has an FYI summary of this meeting posted at: http://www.aip.org/fyi/2009/125.html Sincerely, Norman Graf