Don Young: “Make no mistake; the Secure Rural Schools Program is critical to many of my communities.”

Congress authorized the leasing and development program within the 1002 Area of ANWR not on a whim, but after decades of robust debate.

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…

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

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