The VSOs support my bill.
This is one of the few that has no caps.
We need to have a deep water port in the Arctic, now needs to move forward.
It is just wrong. We all know it is wrong.
Here in Alaska, we are where the Indo-Pacific Nation and us, as an Arctic nation, intersect, these two critical regions intersect.
We are nervous about all that is happening there. And I think you all probably would agree that we have reason to be nervous.
I do not want the Federal Government telling me who I am going to hire for an attorney.
I think this is one of the few that has no caps.
As the Chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, this is a dereliction of duty on your part, right now.
We should just tell them no.
This is literally an example of here is a pot of money. Is it going to go to sick Marines and their families or is it going to go to trial l...
It really hurts the average citizen, the average American, average Alaskan.
Respectfully, that is just, you are using that excuse in Alaska all the time.
I am for all of the above, wind turbines, solar, hydro, oil, gas, we need it all.
We are not going to say, hey, we will do wind turbines, but you guys who are producing natural gas, forget it.
Can I get your commitment, though, to just be really skeptical about doing that?
We need a commercially available icebreaker up there soon, because we are not going to see our Polar Security Cutters for 3, 4 years and pro...