Don Young: “Congress has abandoned that trust responsibility for many tribes.”

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

We have learned firsthand that resource development and protection of the environment are not mutually exclusive goals.

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

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…