Mary Peltola: “Half of Congress does not reflect their electorate. This has to change. We’ve got to get working people, regular people…”

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

Our fight is not against small and mid-size boats that keep communities like Kodiak strong. It’s against the out of state corporate greed that leads to wanton waste and damage to our sea floor.

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

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.