03/15/2011
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"We do not have border patrol. We do not have any security along that entire U.S. coast that is called Alaska, some 33,000 miles of coastline that we have got up there."
"These are things that have come about as part of the Arctic Council discussions, but I think it is going to require a review in an area that we just have not been focused on at all."
"We need to have a vision for how we are going to respond as an arctic nation with the infrastructure that we need."
"This letter is to state our support for full funding of the PILT program in the Federal fiscal year 2018 budget."