Washington, DC – Former Chairmen and senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Congressman Don Young today issued the following statement on the passage of the Howard Coble Coast Guard Transportation Act of 2014, legislation that authorizes Coast Guard spending for one year and advances a number of important Alaskan causes, including a 3-year moratorium on overbearing ... Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Following the House passage of H.R. 83, the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act – which provides federal funding for 11 Appropriations bills through Fiscal Year 2015 and funding for the Department of Homeland Security through February 27, 2015 – Alaskan Congressman Don Young shared the following thoughts: “Unfortunately, due to months of inaction and dysfuncti... Read more »
U.S. Senate moves to repeal Violence Against Women Act's 'Alaska exemption' By Chris Klint Chris U.S. Senate moves to repeal Violence Against Women Act's 'Alaska exemption' JUNEAU - The U.S. Senate has passed legislation that would allow Alaska tribes to issue and enforce protective orders against non-Natives. Sen. Mark Begich's office said the provision passed as a pared-down version of a safe fa... Read more »
ICYMI: Last week, as reported by E&E News, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell stressed the very point Alaskans and advocates of the King Cove road have pushed for years; the concerns of Native Americans must be heeded “because they know their lands better than we do.” The remarks, in reference to tribal concerns over the approval of Keystone XL Pipeline, came at the White House’s Annual Tribal Nation... Read more »
Sealaska land transfer includes logging, energy, cemetery sites By Joe Viechnicki, KFSK - Petersburg Legislation transferring tens of thousands of acres of the Tongass National Forest to the regional Native corporation Sealaska will supply timber and other economic development opportunities for the corporation. The bill also will set up new conservation areas in Southeast and transfer traditional ... Read more »
Federal ‘Duck Stamp’ Passes Senate With Exemption For Alaska Subsistence Hunters By Francesca Fenzi Federal law currently requires a "duck stamp" permit for hunting migratory waterfowl. But a new bill may exempt Alaska Native subsistence hunters. Federal law currently requires a “duck stamp” permit for hunting migratory waterfowl. But a new bill may exempt Alaska Native subsistence hunters. legisl... Read more »
Young votes with House GOP on bill to block Obama on immigration Coinciding nicely with a poll that shows Republicans are increasingly sour on paths to citizenship for illegal residents, particularly if that path requires presidential executive action, on Thursday the U.S. House passed H.R. 5759, the Executive Amnesty Prevention Act of 2014, a bill that would make such executive action illegal. Re... Read more »
U.S. House, Senate members advance land bill with 56 others By KATIE MORITZ - JUNEAU EMPIRE Nearly 43 years after the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act was signed into law by President Richard Nixon, Sealaska Corporation will likely receive the final acres of Tongass National Forest land it is entitled to. Robert Dillon, a spokesman for Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and the Senate Energy and Na... Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House of Representatives and Alaskan Congressman Don Young today passed bicameral legislation to authorize $521.3 billion in national defense spending and $63.7 billion for overseas operations, in addition to providing key reforms to protect Alaskan military operations and service members, prevent military sexual assault and suicide, reaffirm the F-35 basing at Eielson Air F... Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Following passage of H.R. 5759, the Executive Amnesty Prevention Act of 2014, Alaskan Congressman Don Young detailed his support for the House’s first legislative response to the President’s controversial executive order on immigration: “Two weeks ago, through executive order, President Obama circumvented Congress by directing his federal agencies to stop the deportation of mor... Read more »
