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On the recordMarch 6, 2019
before I was elected Governor of Delaware in 1992, I served in the House of Representatives for five terms. We have one congressional seat. Alaska is one of those States, as the Senator from Alaska knows, that also has one congressional seat. I got to the House on January 3, 1983, and one of the first people I met there was Don Young. We ended up on the same committee together, not the Environment and Public Works we serve on today but the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, which has a lot of the same jurisdiction as the Environment and Public Works Committee. So I remember going to Alaska with him and a bunch of our colleagues and just going through Prudhoe and just seeing all kinds of places around the Senator's beautiful State and going back with my family years later. My colleague is also a colonel in the Marines. I call him ``colonel.'' He knows that John Barrasso and I like music and that every now and then, we will find some way to work some music lyrics into what we have to say. In listening to the Senator talk about Don Young, it reminds me of a great song by Bob Dylan, called ``Forever Young,'' which is a classic song. You can find anything on the internet these days, and someone was nice enough to pull up the first verse of the lyrics of ``Forever Young'' by Bob Dylan.…
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware
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Mar 6, 2019

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