Mary Peltola: “I want to commend the Coast Guard on all of the real substantive efforts and forward progress on housing and childcare…”

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.

If we preclude Alaskans from being able to harvest Chinook, that means we’re precluding them from harvesting just about everything during the summer.

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.