On the recordMarch 29, 2022
It is my honor to stand in this Chamber tonight and to pay tribute to one of the longest serving and I think one of the most effective Members to ever stand in this Chamber. Don Young was not just the longest-serving Member, he was also a mentor and a friend; and he is someone who will be dearly missed. Outside of Don's service as a legislator, just sitting and talking with him and hearing the stories of his life, he told me one time about running a 100-mile trap line in the remote part of Alaska, and it was like I was speaking to some character out of a novel or out of an Outdoor Life magazine article. He seemed to have done everything. It is the stories that I think we are going to remember from Don. He passed very great legislation that had to do with everything from fisheries to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. He was behind that. But everybody who knew Don will remember the stories. We asked some of Don's former staff members if they could share stories, and I have got many pages, too many to read, just treasures here. I want to share one story from David Whaley, who was a staff member for Don. He says one of my favorite Don Young stories is about the original Magnuson-Stevens Act, then known as the Fisheries Conservation and Management Act, or FCMA. The legislation extended U.S. jurisdiction over fisheries out to 200 miles.…
