U.S. Sen. Mark Begich wants to close a host of offshore tax loopholes to make the federal tax code fairer for small businesses and families and raise as much as $200 billion as the foundation for a balanced deficit-reduction package.
The federal government announced it is dropping guidelines for federal purchases of seafood that could have excluded Alaska salmon and other sustainable seafood from national parks and military bases in advance of a hearing announced last week and chaired by U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, chairman of the Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and the Coast […]
Discussing issues important to Alaska veterans such as eliminating the claims backlog and improving facilities and programs for women, U.S. Senator Mark Begich yesterday chaired a Senate Veterans Affairs Committee (SVAC) field hearing in Anchorage.
Moving one step closer to becoming law, a provision inserted to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 Defense Appropriations bill at the request of U.S. Sen. Mark Begich to halt the relocation of the F16s from Eielson Air Force Base on Thursday passed out of the Senate Appropriations committee.