Political Quotes

“as residents of sparsely populated State with great natural resources but severe poverty in many of its rural areas, Alaskans have engaged in a variety of social and economic exercises intended to improve the living standard and expand economic opportunities for our most challenged communities. I rise today to introduce a bill to ensure that one of the most successful of those exercises is allowed to continue. I am pleased to say the measure is also cosponsored by Alaska's senior senator. The CDQ Community Preservation Act is intended to maintain the participation of all currently eligible communities along the shore of the Bering Sea in Alaska's Community Development Quota program. It is necessary because inconsistencies in statutory and regulatory provisions may require a reassessment of eligibility and the exclusion of some communities from the program. This was not the intent of the original program, nor of any subsequent changes to it. In order to clarify that fact, a legislative remedy is needed.”