As the Senate returns to Washington to debate how to reduce the federal deficit and avoid severe automatic budget cuts, Sen. Mark Begich announced a new bill to strengthen the Social Security program while making clear the federal budget should not be balanced on the backs of America's seniors by cutting or privatizing Social Security.
In response to skyrocketing energy prices in Interior and rural Alaska, Sen. Mark Begich announced legislation on Monday to apply one-stop permitting benefits to any natural-gas transportation mechanism – be it an in-state pipeline, trucking natural gas to a community distribution network, or any combination of transportation systems to get Alaska’s North Slope natural gas […]
Sen. Mark Begich will be the first in line to shake the hands of members of the Alaska Army National Guard’s B Company, 1st Battalion, 143rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne) when they deplane in Indianapolis, Ind. after a year in Afghanistan today, Thursday, Nov. 8.
Sen. Mark Begich last night issued the following statement on the national elections: