We would appreciate that for the record, and just recognize that it is not just pre-warming the aircraft, but it is those individuals that have to then get into that aircraft.

So of course, we are very pleased about the four additional KC-135s there, to be staged at Eielson, a great expansion to our capabilities.

I am sure that you are aware of the lawsuit from the Wild Fish Conservancy in Washington State regarding the southern resident killer whale population.

Alaska provides the only location capable of supporting both short- and long-range hypersonic weapons testing within the United States.

The average household in western Alaska consumes hundreds of pounds of fish a year.

In Alaska--the folks that are traveling to Alaska--we have at least a million people a year who come to Alaska and to visit our national parks.

I would like to address my questions to the NOAA Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for pronouncing it correctly, so that I knew that we had been pronouncing it incorrectly.

the local hire and the incorporation of local knowledge in land management is super-important for us in Alaska.

Okay. I want to note that we are going to continue to place a priority on that.

I am very thankful for this Act having been passed 2 years ago.

I don't think that $25 million is adequate to address the decline that we see within the industry there.

Alaska is really the first line of defense for our nation up there.

We should be working together to try to figure out how we can solve some of these problems...

Most Native communities in Alaska still are relying on diesel fuel and heating oil.

One of the challenges that we have in Alaska, just as it is difficult to get things in, you have to fly barrels of fuel in at the end of winter, it is equally difficult to get things out.

It's kind of embarrassing to think that a country like India is going to have an icebreaker in the water before we would.

But we also have things like batteries out there, things that we really don't want to have sitting out there.