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Washington, D.C. – The House of Representatives today passed S. 404, the Green Mountain Lookout Heritage Protection Act, which contains an Alaska specific land provision to remedy an issue affecting an Alaska Native Veteran’s land allotment and cabin facing destruction by the Fish and Wildlife Service following a surveying mistake. The provision, originally introduced by Congressman Young in the H... Read more »

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 ... Read more »

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 adjut... Read more »

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 Coas... Read more »

Washington, D.C – Alaskan Congressman Don Young today questioned Interior Secretary Sally Jewell’s commitment to providing emergency medical access to King Cove, AK during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on the fiscal year 2015 Department of Interior Budget. Congressman Young raised serious concern with Secretary Jewell and her Department’s unwillingness to work on legitimate solutions... Read more »

Washington, D.C. –The House of Representatives today passed bipartisan legislation to reduce the impact the Affordable Care Act has on millions of American workers who may suffer reduced hours and lost wages due to the redefinition of full-time employment within the law. H.R. 2575, the Save American Workers (SAW) Act, would repeal the new 30-hour definition of full time employment in Obamacare and... Read more »

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 exch... Read more »

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, Youn... Read more »

Washington, D.C. – Alaskan Congressman Don Young today shared his support for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) report reversing its opinion on the status of the Steller Sea Lion, following overbearing National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) restrictions that hampered and closed certain Aleutian Islands groundfish fisheries in 2011. In its most recent Biological Opinion... Read more »

Washington, D.C. – Alaskan Congressman Don Young today applauded House passage of H.R. 4005, the Howard Coble Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act of 2014, which authorizes $8.7 billion in discretionary funding for United States Coast Guard (USCG) operations, acquisitions and research for Fiscal Year 2015 and 2016, and works to advance the mission of protecting our nation’s oceans and water... Read more »