Ted Stevens: “I congratulate you for helping us getting this started as far as the gas pipeline is concerned.”

The whole purpose of the Act is to protect our fisheries and have a conservation ethic to be the major goal.

It is the wrong mine for the wrong place.

I do believe that it is of such significance that we cannot turn away from it.

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