Congress must act, for the health of our forests and for the survival of our rural communities.

I look forward to working with my colleagues on this.

We need to pick up where we left off with respect to wildfire and forest management reform.

In the Tongass, that relationship used to be largely focused on timber production. It created good paying jobs to support families, and it generated income that could be shared with communities to provide essential services such as schools.

I appreciate how your statement has laid out the real life impact for families and for communities.

Alaska is a resource dependent state. Our communities rely on the Federal Government to be a good neighbor and partner to support jobs and economic opportunity on federal lands.

I think we recognize we cannot have the status quo continue.

The President has not supported this and our House colleagues, who do not understand it, have not supported SRS.

We also need to do more to gain access to our federal lands for sustainable economic development.

I, too, want to give a further shout out to your efforts, Senator Wyden.

So we have a suicide issue amongst all of our population, and then our veteran population just adds to the real consequences and the severity of the problem.

It is a privilege to be able to welcome the Governor and our dignitaries here this morning.

Over the past couple of years, the cap for the CW program has been reached before the end of the fiscal year.

It is great to see this economy rebound.

I have personally seen, coming to my office here in Washington, D.C., several Alaskan vets who have their animals with them, and they tell me that in terms of ways that they are able to address PTSD without the benefit, if you will, of…

And it is a reality that more often than not, the services that may be provided when it comes to that level of support, maybe the Crisis Line on the phone or what we are doing through video conferencing technologies and effectively…

Well, let me ask then, if any of these more experimental or perhaps less traditional--let's say that--are being considered beyond just the telehealth.

This bill has effectively three primary components: for Fiscal Year 2017 only, it would increase the cap on Commonwealth-Only Transition Workers.

Senator Sullivan and I introduced a bill, S. 883, the Offshore Production and Energizing National Security Alaska Act of 2017, to lift a damaging Federal moratorium, reopen Alaska's energy-rich Arctic waters to responsible production, and…

AACA urges the sub-committee support the excise tax language proposed by Senator Murkowski.

Senator Murkowski's proposed draft language is supported by AACA.

this is one of those issues that I am really running out of patience on.

I would like your commitment to me that, if confirmed, you will revisit this seafood advice and consider modifications to what was issued in January of this year.

Despite all of this immense opposition, in November 2015, the FDA approved AquaBounty Technologies' application for this new animal drug process.

We refer to this G.E. salmon as 'frankenfish,' nobody is going to voluntarily label it as such.