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Have Alaska’s federal lawmakers read the Mueller report?

6 June 2019 14 h 32 min Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 1 Comment Alaska, Dan Sullivan, Don Young, Internet, Lisa Murkowski, Robert Mueller

The Mueller Report has been available for seven weeks now. You can buy it in paperback. You can read it

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Which Indigenous voices? On Arctic Refuge, lawmakers practice selective listening

27 March 2019 10 h 02 min Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments ANWR, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, caribou, Don Young, First Nations, Gwich’in, indigenous, Iñupiat, Porcupine Caribou

A bill in Congress would reverse the 2017 decision to open the northernmost part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

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Trump’s emergency declaration splits Alaska delegation

28 February 2019 10 h 19 min — 28 February 2019 10 h 29 min Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, borders, Congress, Dan Sullivan, Don Young, Donald Trump, House, Lisa Murkowski, military, US Senate

The vote is expected to be close when the U.S. Senate decides whether to reverse President Donald Trump’s declaration of

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Alaska Congressman seeks legal path for cannabidiol

25 February 2019 14 h 00 min Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, cannabis, Congress, Don Young, marijuana

Alaska Congressman Don Young has joined a group of House Democrats who are seeking legal status for a product called

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In Congress, Alaskans are split over shutdown

10 January 2019 13 h 05 min — 11 January 2019 9 h 13 min Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, budget, Congress, Dan Sullivan, Don Young, Lisa Murkowski

Republicans in Congress remain mostly united behind President Trump and his rejection of legislation to re-open government departments unless it

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Why does an Alaska Congressman want to change America’s beloved fisheries law?

12 July 2018 10 h 40 min — 12 July 2018 11 h 13 min Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Don Young, fisheries, fishing, law, Magnuson-Stevens Act

The U.S. House of representatives on Wednesday passed a revision of the Magnuson Stevens Act sponsored by Alaska Congressman Don

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Alaskan Indigenous community group pushes for better fishing quotas

4 July 2018 14 h 52 min — 4 July 2018 14 h 54 min Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, Bering Sea, Community Development Quota, development, Don Young, economy, fishing, indigenous, law, Magnuson-Stevens Act, quotas

Alaska Congressman Don Young is trying again to renew the Magnuson-Stevens Act. The nation’s fundamental federal fisheries law hasn’t been

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U.S. bill would give Alaska Native corporations share of ANWR oil revenue

12 June 2018 9 h 50 min — 12 June 2018 9 h 51 min Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, ANWR, Arctic drilling, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, conservation, Don Young, drilling, indigenous, natural resources, oil, Tom Cole

At the request of Alaska Congressman Don Young, a bill pending in the U.S. House would reduce Alaska’s share of

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Alaska’s congressional delegation: Yes for offshore oil and gas leasing, but not everywhere

29 January 2018 16 h 39 min Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, Cook Inlet, Dan Sullivan, Don Young, economy, Lisa Murkowski, natural resources, North Aleutian Basin, Ryan Zinke

Alaska’s congressional delegation has asked Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke to exclude most of the state from his draft plan for

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Republicans celebrate opening of ANWR to oil drilling

21 December 2017 9 h 22 min — 21 December 2017 15 h 05 min Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments ANILCA, Don Young, Joint Committee on Taxation, Lisa Murkowski, Tax reform

Alaska’s members of Congress celebrated their success Wednesday in opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. The measure

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With Trump ending DACA program, uncertainty looms for Alaska’s few ‘dreamers’

6 September 2017 14 h 19 min Michelle Theriault Boots, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Anchorage, Dan Sullivan, Don Young, immigration, Lisa Murkowski, migrants

Compared to other states, Alaska has a tiny number of beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy. But

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U.S. congressmen look for ways to open up Alaska’s natural resources

18 August 2017 15 h 31 min — 18 August 2017 15 h 33 min Erica Martinson, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Arctic drilling, Don Young, energy, fossil fuels, North Slope

Alaska Rep. Don Young has spent the week guiding some of his fellow Republican members of Congress around some of

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Bill allowing road through wildlife refuge in Alaska passes U.S. House

21 July 2017 17 h 05 min — 27 July 2017 12 h 32 min Erica Martinson, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Cold Bay, Don Young, health, Infrastructure, King Cove, transportation, wildlife

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House passed legislation Thursday that would give the remote Southwest Alaska town of King Cove the

In this Feb. 1, 2007 picture, snow covers Lower Slate Lake, right, in the Tongass National Forest. (Michael Penn / The Juneau Empire / AP Photo )

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Alaska politicians may block Tongass National Forest plan

16 June 2016 15 h 44 min Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Don Young, Lisa Murkowski

The Forest Service has a plan for the Tongass National Forest that would shift loggers away from the harvest of