Shot 07/12/2011.## House Ways & Means-Child Deaths from Maltreatment Hrng. ---Human Resources Subcommittee (Chairman Davis, R-Ky.) of House Ways and Means Committee will hold a hearing on child deaths due to maltreatment. The session will focus on a Government Accountability Office report on what is known about the circumstances of child deaths and near deaths due to maltreatment, state approaches to gathering and reporting this information and what the Department of Health and Human Services is doing to support the collection and accurate reporting of this information.  Contact: Matt Weidinger - Majority Staff Dir. & Sr. Advisor at 202-225-1025 Witnesses Scheduled Kay E. Brown, director, Education, Workforce, and Income Security Issues, Government Accountability Office Tamara Tunie, actor, Law and Order: SVU and spokesperson, National Coalition to End Child Abuse Deaths Theresa Covington, director, The National Center for Child Death Review Michael Petit, president and founder, Every Child Matters Education Fund Carole Jenny, director, Child Protection Program, Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Providence, R.I. Jane McClure Burstain, senior policy analyst, Center for Public Policy Priorities ## JANE MCCLURE BURSTAIN, PH.D., SENIOR POLICY ANALYST, CNTR POLICY PRIORITIES##