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  • Fairbanks Daily News Miner: EDITORIAL - Avoiding an in-state fight over where to base F-35s
    Posted in Articles on April 8, 2014 | Preview rr
    Tags: Defense

    Anyone wondering where Alaska’s senior U.S. senator stands on where the Air Force should base two Pacific Rim squadrons of the new F-35 fighters need not wonder any longer. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Eielson Air Force Base is the best home for them. Her comment came Wednesday at a Senate Appropriations Committee subcommittee hearing and is notable because Air Force officials in February placed two Alaska bases — Eielson and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage — on the short list of five p... Read more

  • Fairbanks Daily News Miner: Editorial -The interior secretary’s bad judgment: Alaska’s leaders are correct to fight hard against King Cove road decision
    Posted in Articles on April 7, 2014 | Preview rr
    Tags: Native Health Care Issues

    Members of Alaska’s congressional delegation are applying a full press on Interior Secretary Sally Jewell about her decision rejecting a land exchange that would allow for construction of a one-lane road to increase the safety of the people of King Cove on the Alaska Peninsula. Rightly so. The secretary apparently doesn’t understand Alaska. That’s more than unfortunate to see in the person who is in charge of the federal agencies that have management authority over a large portion of the Alaska ... Read more

  • Newsmax: Republicans Pledge to Increase Ranks of Veterans on Capitol Hill
    Posted in Articles on April 6, 2014 | Preview rr
    Tags: Veterans

    Republicans have expressed their dismay at a report that fewer than 3 percent of staffers working for legislators in Congress were veterans and pledged their efforts to increase those numbers. "The percentage of veterans working on Capitol Hill is certainly discouraging," Illinois Rep. Bill Enyart, who served in Air Force during the Vietnam War, told Newsmax in a statement. "When I served as adjutant general of the Illinois National Guard, I saw first-hand how hard it can be for our military men... Read more

  • Cordova Times: House passed $8.7 billion USCG bill
    Posted in Articles on April 4, 2014 | Preview rr
    Tags: Defense

    Legislation authorizing $8.7 billion in discretionary funding for U.S. Coast Guard operations, acquisitions and research in fiscal years 2015 and 2016 has passed the House with strong bipartisan support, and now moves to the Senate. H.R. 4004, the Howard Coble Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2014 will be considered in the Senate, which has been working on its own version of the Coast Guard reauthorization legislation. The Senate will likely then send its own version of the legisla... Read more

  • Alaska Dispatch: Young blasts Interior secretary over King Cove road
    Posted in Articles on April 3, 2014 | Preview rr
    Tags: Native Health Care Issues

    Like a Bering Sea superstorm shrieking across the Alaska Peninsula, a furious Rep. Don Young laid into Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Thursday about her decision to reject a potentially life-saving road through an Alaska refuge. “I think your decision stunk,” Young said during a hearing in the House, wagging a finger at Jewell. But that was just part of the tirade. At one point during the exchange, Young and Jewell tangled over whether urbanized birds in Washington, D.C., are genetically sim... Read more

  • APRN: Young Lights into Interior Secretary Over King Cove
    Posted in Articles on April 3, 2014 | Preview rr
    Tags: Native Health Care Issues

    Interior Secretary Sally Jewell already rejected a plan to build a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge to link King Cove to the all-weather airport at Cold Bay. These days, all three members of Alaska’s Congressional delegation are trying to get her to change her mind. Today was Congressman Don Young’s turn to press the case. As a member of the House Natural Resources Committee, Young was allotted five minutes to question Jewell on the president’s $12 billion budget for Interior. Y... Read more

  • APRN: Seismologists, lawmakers call for earthquake early warning system
    Posted in Articles on March 28, 2014 | Preview rr

    In Congress yesterday, a House subcommittee marked the 5oth anniversary of the Great Alaska Earthquake with a hearing focused on what scientists have learned from that event that can prepare the nation for the next big temblor or tsunami. Seismologists and several lawmakers said Congress needs to pony up for an earthquake early warning system. For people who study earthquakes, each major event serves as a lab experiment. Plate tectonics was a tentative theory before the 1964 quake, which also pr... Read more

  • Alaska Dispatch: Don Young ain't cryin' over Steven Tyler
    Posted in Articles on March 24, 2014 | Preview rr

    Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler apparently didn't want to miss a thing during his latest visit to Capitol Hill, taking time to stop by all-Alaska Congressman Don Young's office Monday to take a good look at Young's 1,300-pound stuffed Alaska brown bear. Young shared the picture on his Facebook page, sadly sans the bear or bolo ties. Read more

  • APRN: Alaska Highway Money Not an Easy Sell to Congress
    Posted in Articles on March 21, 2014 | Preview rr
    Tags: Transportation and Infrastructure

    Alaska Highway Money Not an Easy Sell to Congress By Liz Ruskin, APRN - Washington DC The government of Canada’s Yukon Territory is asking Congress to pay for reconstruction of the Alaska Highway. Premier Darrell Pasloski was in Washington last week to make the case. The United States and Canada agreed in 1977 to work together to improve the northern section of the Highway, as well as the spur from Haines Junction to the border near Haines. The U.S. agreed to pay for construction and Canada woul... Read more

  • The Maritime Executive: Alaska: Top 3 in Nation for Maritime Jobs Per Capita
    Posted in Articles on March 21, 2014 | Preview rr

    Alaska: Top 3 in Nation for Maritime Jobs Per Capita Maritime Industry Worth More than $1 Billion Annually to Alaska’s Economy BY MAREX The American Maritime Partnership (AMP), the voice of the domestic maritime industry, joined with the Transportation Institute, along with Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Senator Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Congressman Don Young (R-Alaska), to highlight new data from a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers that shows Alaska ranks third in the nation in per capita ma... Read more

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