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Alaskan Congressman Don Young voted no on H.R. 2693, Senator Harry Reid’s “Budget Control Act of 2011” this afternoon. The Reid plan would authorize the President to increase the debt ceiling by $2.4 trillion with two separate $1.2 trillion authorizations. According to Democrats, the Reid plan reduces the deficit by $2.19 trillion over ten years; however $1 trillion of the estimated cuts are from ... Read more »

Alaskan Congressman Don Young voted yes tonight on the Budget Control Act of 2011. This important bill reduces spending by more than it increases the debt limit, and imposes no new taxes. This legislation would reduce total spending by $917 billion over the next 10 years and would provide for a $900 billion increase in the statutory debt limit, subject to a Congressional disapproval process. “The ... Read more »

The U.S. House voted tonight against an amendment introduced by Rep. Norman Dicks (D-WA) that would strike a provision in the Interior Appropriations bill forbidding the National Parks Service from enforcing regulations on waters in Alaska’s Yukon-Charley National Preserve. This provision, included at the request of Alaskan Congressman Don Young, will be included in the final version of the Interi... Read more »

Washington, D.C. – Alaskan Congressman Don Young reintroduced the Public-Private Vocational Partnership Act today which aims to strengthen vocational education programs. Specifically, this legislation would create a tax credit for businesses that either donate equipment to vocational education programs or host an intern as part of an educational training program approved by a college or school. “W... Read more »

The U.S. House Committee on Appropriations finished marking up the FY 2012 Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, yesterday evening. Included in the final legislation passed out of the committee is a provision, requested by Alaskan Congressman Don Young, which would forbid the National Parks Service from enforcing regulations on waters in Alaska’s Yukon-Charley National Pr... Read more »

The House Committee on Natural Resources marked-up the Southeast Alaska Native Land Entitlement Finalization and Jobs Protection Act today, introduced by Chairman of the Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs Don Young (R-AK) and Ranking Member Dan Boren (D-OK), in April. This bipartisan legislation will allow the Sealaska Native Corporation to receive its remaining land conveyance under... Read more »

The House Natural Resources Committee passed H. R. 2150, the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska Access Act, this afternoon, with bipartisan approval. H.R. 2150 expands energy production by requiring that annual lease sales be held in the NPR-A, and expedites permitting in infrastructure development. This legislation was introduced in June as Congressman Young, Chairman Hastings, and Governor Parnel... Read more »

The U.S. House voted this evening on passage of H.R. 2018, the Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011. This legislation incorporates Congressman Young’s 404 permitting legislation which was introduced last year as a response to Conoco Phillips CD-5 issue on the North Slope, the Kensington Mine outside Juneau, and other such issues where the EPA has gotten in the way of projects that are cl... Read more »

Alaskan Congressman Don Young released the following statement this afternoon in response to an Executive Order signed by the President to establish an interagency working group to coordinate domestic energy development and permitting in Alaska: “I am pleased that the Administration is seemingly taking Alaska resource development more seriously. Time will tell if this working group helps streamlin... Read more »

Alaskan Congressman Don Young voted in favor of H.R. 2219, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act for 2012. H.R. 2219 contains $530.5 billion in non-emergency, discretionary budget authority for the Department of Defense (DoD). H.R. 2219 also includes $118 billion in emergency contingency spending for overseas operations to fight the global war on terrorism, especially in Afghanistan and Ira... Read more »