I am appreciative of Rep. Huffman for including it in his bill and working with the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) t...
Although I commend my colleague, Rep. Huffman, for understanding the crucial role MSA plays in the management of our nat...
Let's work a bill, like you say, bipartisanly and try to get to the situation where it needs improvement.
I do believe that it has worked well. Can we improve on it? Yes.
Mr. Young's bill continues that management style while providing for more flexibility and transparency in the law.
I look forward to once again hearing from the countless Alaskans and Americans who helped us develop these positive refo...
I fear that this will only make the world's fishery problems worse.
But the big thing is, it doesn't do any good to get on the board or the council if they don't have the authority.
I would like to say I wrote the bill with a lot of good staff help. Me and Gerry Studds, he was the Chairman, and we saw...
I believe that adding two tribal seats will allow Alaska Native people, who have the longest dependence on these resourc...
Just because reducing bycatch for the industry has a cost or may reduce harvest, I don't believe we can use that as an e...
We are only trying to feed our own families. We are down to 20 percent of what we historically harvested.
We are heartened by the forward-thinking solutions presented in the Sustaining America's Fisheries for the Future Act.
We`ve got to step back from the partisanship, we`ve got to step back from the politicization that is driving this conver...
It is an issue that I care deeply about as a member of the Armed Services Committee.
This is going to happen, and we want the VA and DOD to be ready when it does.
It is a model, no doubt, but it is not perfect.
My bill is already in the NDAA, this year's NDAA.
