Ted Stevens: “I hope we will get some innovative suggestions for the technology in the future.”

In 2003, Alaska's own Senator Ted Stevens singled out Alaska Tribes for exceptionally harsh financial restrictions.

They are not numbers. They were people, living, breathing, caring, loving people. And they're not anymore. And there is no rational explanation as to why not.

The NALEMP annual appropriation was first drafted in 1993 by Senator Ted Stevens and Senator Daniel Inouye.

A country that picks up or identifies a launch might legitimately worry whether the weapon carries a nuclear or conventional payload.