WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, Alaska Congressman Don Young helped introduce the bipartisan Supporting Every at-Risk Veteran In Critical Emergencies (SERVICE) Act. The SERVICE Act creates a pilot program within the Department of Justice to provide grants to law enforcement agencies to create local veteran response teams — teams of military veteran law enforcement officers that respond to other veterans […]
October 29, 2021 (Anchorage) – Alaska and nine other states have filed a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy announced today. Under the mandate, a private business would be required to force its employees to be vaccinated for COVID-19 before it could be awarded a federal contract […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled a $1.85 trillion spending plan he said would provide the “most transformative” aid to American families in decades and, at the same time, set the United States on a path toward sharply cutting its greenhouse gas pollution. Biden laid out the plan — about half the amount […]
“Now is the time for leaders in all walks of life—for citizens of all political backgrounds and persuasions—to come to the aid of the republic.” Warning that the Republican Party—which “remains under the sway” of former President Donald Trump—poses a “serious danger” to U.S. democracy, a group of writers, academics, and political activists spanning the ideological […]