Don Young: “I want to assure everybody there is no attempt in this bill to lose the trust responsibility to the tribes.”

I come before you today to plead on behalf of all Alaskans for relief from the inimical policies imposed by the current Administration.

It was sponsored by Congressman Debbie Dingell and initially by Congressman Don Young.

We see the Biden administration utilizing every bureaucratic device at its disposal in its quixotic quest to forestall natural resource development across Alaska.

When the tribe asked Congressman Don Young to cosponsor the bill years ago, he looked me in the eye and said, so the landowners get resolved, the tribe still has to prove its case, are you sure that is what you want? I said, yes, sir, it…