Ted Stevens: “How do we know which is the highest priority exemption? I thought there was an absolute prohibition of any gift from a…”

They are not numbers. They were people, living, breathing, caring, loving people. And they're not anymore. And there is no rational explanation as to why not.

The whole purpose of the Act is to protect our fisheries and have a conservation ethic to be the major goal.

In 2003, Alaska's own Senator Ted Stevens singled out Alaska Tribes for exceptionally harsh financial restrictions.

Thanks to the foresight of Senator Ted Stevens and his congressional colleagues in establishing the North Pacific Research Board in 1997.