I want to underscore again using my State as an example, Alaska Native peoples as an example of why it is so imperative that we improve trib...
Fourteen percent, about 14 percent of households in Indian Country don't have electricity.
Alaska is really the first line of defense for our nation up there.
Well, know that we're paying close attention to Coast Guard.
We are lagging and a commercially available icebreaker is just going to be a gap-filler.
Thank you for the time.
Know that again what we want to do is get to a long-term solution to that program.
So you don't consider that outreach, do you?
Let's visit on that because I'd also like to talk to you about the potential for the Ukrainian people that have come to Alaska, many of whom...
We should be working together to try to figure out how we can solve some of these problems...
That is what these consortia are able to do. They are able to build capacity so that these many, many much smaller and much less advantaged ...
I would ask that our teams sit down and talk about this, because as we are talking about it, you have a deadline that is coming up with oppo...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
But I will tell you, none of that is any good to a place like Alaska where the electricity is unaffordable and the service is unreliable.
For far too long, we hear about these programs, we hear about the funding that we have put, outlined in legislation, in law with specific, s...
If you have greater resources, it would seem to me reasonable that this would certainly free that up. Would you not agree?
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 win...
If we can resolve some of these things quickly to allow for these applications to be submitted, and again, to take advantage of this, that i...
