Gov. Linda Lingle, Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann and other top officials are scheduled to appear tomorrow at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee on the state's use of federal stimulus money.

U.S. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawai'i, the committee's chairman, called the hearing at the state Capitol to hear how the state plans to make use of more than $1 billion in federal stimulus money. A federal Web site tracking the money found that $699 million has been made available to the state so far.

Along with the governor and the mayor, state Senate President Colleen Hanabusa, D-21st (Nanakuli, Makaha), state schools Superintendent Pat Hamamoto, Rear Adm. Michael A. Giorgione of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and other state and federal officials are expected to testify.

The state is facing an estimated $786 million budget deficit through June 2011. State lawmakers included nearly $1 billion in federal stimulus money in the two-year budget passed last session that has since fallen out of balance because of declining state revenues.

The hearing is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. in Room 325 of the state Capitol.