07/28/2015
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"A long while."
"the process to determine Alaska's future was driven from Alaska, not from Washington, DC."
"As someone who was born in Alaska when we were still a territory, I do have great sympathy for the desire of the people of Puerto Rico to resolve their political status. It took Alaska 92 years. . . ...."
"But we're going to do everything we can because it seems to me to just allow this to go on and on and on as we heard in the discussion with Senator Risch, means that we have a solution that, at least,..."