Don Young said...

I will say that that's the responsibility of the President. President Biden has chosen Deb, and she has accepted.

But the big thing is, it doesn't do any good to get on the board or the council if they don't have the authority.

I don't think that the Secretary of Commerce would be as anti-tribe as the Department of Fish and Game is at this time.

It was the 'Alaska model' that guided the reauthorization processes.