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Mark Begich

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Mark Begich is an American politician who served as the U.S. Senator from Alaska from 2009 to 2014. A member of the Democratic Party, he focused on issues such as healthcare, veterans' affairs, and economic development during his time in office. Begich was known for his efforts to advocate for Alaska's unique needs and challenges, including those related to energy and the environment.

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May 4, 2010

If we need more, we need to know that.

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May 4, 2010

There was a provision there called the Alaska Federal Interagency Task Force to look at improved services throughout Alaska on health care.

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Apr 26, 2010

If there's a law prohibiting it, we should think if the law is logical.

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Apr 26, 2010

If they could advertise, should they?

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Apr 26, 2010

we, maybe, lack the ability to market our product. Without marketing, people don't know about it.

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Apr 26, 2010

I was not intending to speak because I was hopeful that tonight we would have a simple vote that would move us to debate on a bill that I think people have been waiting for, for a long time, and that is getting reform to our banking…

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Apr 26, 2010

One thing I learned about coming here, a year and a half ago, is, we make the laws.

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Apr 26, 2010

the national parks is--what I understand, there is one person--and I don't know who could answer this, but I--there's one person who actually handles, within National Park Service, all the tourism activities, or is in charge of it.

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Apr 26, 2010

we have the product. That's the good thing.

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Apr 21, 2010

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. And I'll try to go through my questions, here, and then I've got to get back to another committee.

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Apr 21, 2010

we have--62 percent of the fresh-caught fish in the country comes from Alaska, so we have a huge interest in the issue of climate change or acidification of waters.

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Apr 20, 2010

Because in the perfect world, everything is good, but I used to chair the Student Loan Corporation for the State of Alaska for 7 years, Post Secondary Education Commission.

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Apr 20, 2010

My view was the consumer should not be the one penalized at the back end.

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Apr 20, 2010

Excellent, great. In that vein, do you--to step once more on what you are talking about with the stakeholders, with universities--and I am going to walk through just a couple concerns from our University of Alaska because they have some…

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Apr 20, 2010

Anything that distracts them from being able to study and graduate is not a good thing.

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Apr 20, 2010

Ideally the student should not have spent it, but they probably did not realize that they had that payment.

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Apr 20, 2010

You want to fix the overpayment, yes, no?

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Apr 20, 2010

Do you coordinate with the Direct Student Loan folks within the Federal Government to determine...

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Apr 20, 2010

If I can interrupt for a second, that is to get them connected to know what those benefits are.

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Apr 20, 2010

My understanding is the Coast Guard has developed a program to do that.

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Apr 20, 2010

Last question because my time is just about up.

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Apr 20, 2010

I would love that. If you could get those numbers for that office, specifically for the last at least 6 months.

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Apr 20, 2010

If you do not have a time table--I do not want to say nothing gets done, but it sure does take a long time.

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Apr 20, 2010

I think the Coast Guard has done something on the national level.

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