Mary Peltola
The Public Record
Mary Sattler Peltola is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Alaska's at-large congressional district since August 31, 2022. A member of the Democratic Party, she made history as the first Alaska Native woman elected to Congress. Peltola has focused on issues such as subsistence rights, climate change, and economic development in her home state of Alaska. Her election followed a special election to fill the vacancy left by the passing of longtime Congressman Don Young, and she has since been an advocate for bipartisan cooperation in Congress.
This issue did not invent itself in 2020. These immigration issues... have been going on since the 1980s.
this is an important issue, but in other committees there is talk about making cuts to your agency and having a stagnant budget because of continuing resolutions and inflation being the thief in the night.
Given the safety benefits of ADS-B, what additional measures can DOT and FAA take to incentivize further ADS-B equipage?
I want to thank you for the opportunity to testify today and for our ongoing partnership.
What is exciting about this, again, we have multiple jurisdictions supporting this.
Today, I am proud to report that the Biden administration has over 37,000 infrastructure projects moving forward in every State and Territory.
Collectively, they add up to a national undertaking that is giving American families, workers, and businesses the foundation to succeed well into this century.
In my district, the Nisqually Tribe is using these Federal grant funds to pursue a decarbonization initiative work plan.
But I want to be clear about how much work remains on reducing roadway deaths, on making our rails and our skies safer.
I would also like to express our appreciation to the sponsors of these bipartisan pieces of legislation--Representatives Zinke, Peltola, Neguse, Lawler, and more--whose leadership on these bills will help strengthen coordination and focus…
I was just recently at a park in Golden Gate and had the ability to walk around and see how they are providing access not only to veterans and disabled veterans, but also our disabled population.
And it also--if I may, sorry, it also prevents rural people, because ANILCA isn't just for natives, it is for rural people, whatever their ethnicity is.
We are seeing farmlands eroded, port facilities eroded, airport runways eroded through rising seawater.
These are exorbitantly high prices in communities with very high unemployment rates.
I beg to differ because I come from a state where some our communities are paying as much as $15 or more for gasoline.
I take a lot of umbrage with being singled out for having these projects that are really, so much of the product of those projects is going to fuel these highly populated house districts.
I represent the entire state of Alaska and we also live and die by petroleum extraction, fishing, and tourism.
I just wanted to see if Ms. Wolff Culver would like to answer any of the previous questions in more detail.
I really appreciated what Commander Diamond was talking about in terms of safety.
I think it is interesting that the Federal Government has kind of co-opted our term 'Chief,' and then the tribes have co-opted back the term 'Chairman,' and 'Vice Chairman.'
I would like to address my questions to the NOAA Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs.





