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I am coming down on the Senate floor, once again, to talk about another Congressional Review Act resolution that I am encouraging all of my colleagues, Democrats, Republicans--by the way, our last one on the National Petroleum Reserve of…
There is also what we call the VOICE of the Inupiat, another group similarly situated--all Alaska Natives, all from this area. They were established to speak with a unified voice for the Native people on the North Slope, to preserve the…
Why do our Alaska Native people so strongly support this CRA and the one that we did on the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska a couple of weeks ago? Why? I talked about this many times, but I am going to do it again because it is really…
To accuse him and other lawmakers of treason and sedition for rightfully pointing out that servicemembers can refuse illegal orders is reckless and flat-out wrong.
People who feel very strongly about this will feel like they’ve been duped if the justice department claims we can’t release anything because of an active investigation.
I am disappointed in this. Now, I was trying to pass the H.R. bills from the House because those bills have already passed--the Gallego bill, the Sullivan bill, the lands transfer bill for Arizona, the Alaska Native Vietnam vets bill for…
I am coming down to the Senate floor for the second time in about a month to try to pass a really important bill for some really heroic constituents of mine, Alaskan Native Vietnam veterans, and I am going to explain this bill a little…
I am just going to end by saying I am very disappointed. I tried to do this a month ago. This bill of mine is really for some great heroes in America, and the program is going to expire in a month. This bill passed unanimously in December…
It’s one thing if the federal government is going to continue its level of appeal through the courts to say, no, this can’t be done.
It's one thing if the federal government is going to continue its level of appeal through the courts to say, no, this can't be done.
I feel like, at this moment, I want to be the Senator speaking for the men and women who allow this place to happen on a weekday but also on a weekend. There are a lot of really great people who come in, day over day over day, to either…
Imagine that--we want to pay our military during a shutdown, including the Coast Guard. Senator Johnson came to me and said: Dan, I have a broader bill. Let's pay everybody who is required to work to keep us safe in America. I said: Great…
This is not good. This is not good from a governance perspective. This doesn’t reflect well on anybody and it is hurting real people [in] real time, so let’s figure out a way to end it.
we are getting ready to vote on my CRA, S.J. Res. 80. And, by the away, I appreciated the strong bipartisan vote yesterday to get on this bill. This is a really important resolution for our country, for my State, for the Native people, and…
This is day 30 of the Federal Government shutdown. Agencies are shuttered. Important services are paused and unavailable. Countless Americans have missed paychecks because of our failure to do our job to keep the government open. It only…
Let me just end with this: I hope my colleagues on both sides of the aisle can vote for this CRA. I talk about jobs, I talk about national security, and I talk about working families, all of which are very important. At the end of the day…