I hope you feel the urgency that I’m trying to express on behalf of the people in rural Alaska and I think in many parts of rural America where this is their lifeline.
this was one of the hardest votes
My political philosophy is simple. I work for these people.
I know why it is that I do the things that I do.
It is the people of Alaska that I worry about the most, especially when it comes to the potential loss of social safety ...
While we have worked to improve the present bill for Alaska, it is not good enough for the rest of our nation—and we all...
Legislating, for me, is not transactional. I need to believe in the decisions I make.
What’s good for Alaska is not necessarily good for the country; this bill is not good for many Americans in the country.
I know that in many parts of the country, there are Americans who are not going to be advantaged by this bill.
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We do not have a perfect bill by any stretch of the imagination. My hope is that the House is going to look at this and ...