The President's fiscal year 2012 funding request of $67 million for enhanced stock assessments is an increase over the fiscal year 2010 and 2011 requests to ensure that annual catch limits are based on the best available science.
Murkowski emphasizes the importance of funding for accurate fishery assessments.
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Kyle brings extensive knowledge of both our state and our court system to the federal bench, having served the District of Alaska as a federal prosecutor and U.S. Magistrate Judge, a position he has held in Alaska for the past five years.
His extensive experience, professionalism, and judicial temperament make him exceptionally well-qualified for this role.
Where there’s opportunities to put certain guardrails in our spending bills — there are tools, there are mechanisms — we have to be diligent to it.
This is an individual that is not only qualified for this position, he is ready to hit the ground running as a U.S. District Court judge.
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