Mary Peltola: “I condemn that. And I can't stand when I am out in our public lands and I see that.”

Our construction windows are so short in Alaska. They’re like nowhere else. Developing in the Arctic is so unique.

We are flying blind without the surveys and the research that NOAA does.

We live and die by federal agencies and the federal employees who keep those agencies going.

I support oil and gas development. Alaska needs energy, and we have a wealth of resources that could be developed. However, the unintended consequences of this bill are too significant to allow it to pass.