Alaska is the first line of defense for America, right? If you are going to have Russia coming at you, if you are going to have China coming...
It is like this administration doesn't think that Alaska is any part of the rest of the country here.
We are very serious, and earnest, and absolute about our need for responsible development.
I represent Alaska, and Alaska really depends on oil and gas development.
I think to a person in Alaska they could give you about 50 examples of climate change.
I think that there can be reforms to the NEPA process? Absolutely, right?
Oscarville is a community that has no running water, it has no sanitation facility.
I had an opportunity a few weeks ago to bring the Secretary of Energy and five of our colleagues to Bethel, Alaska in mid-February.
Congress also passed Senator Sullivan's Save Our Seas 2.0 Act in 2020, establishing a new grant to support improvements to municipal recycli...
None of this makes sense, particularly when most building materials that we get in Alaska are imported.
Two-thirds of all seafood harvested in America... comes from Alaska.
Common sense permitting reform is something that every American, regardless of political party, regardless of where you live, agrees with.
We just need the more efficient, timely, certain permitting. We are not cutting corners.
I voted for the bill. It wasn't perfect, but in part because of the permitting provisions. We need more of them, but it was a good start.
The only people that helps is the Chinese Communist Party and the radical enviros.
we are a resource rich but infrastructure poor State.
It shouldn't take 8 years to permit a bridge. It took 20 years to permit a gold mine.
I was proud to say that my CRA as we call them had a vote on the Senate floor, and it rescinded the Biden permitting CEQ rule.
