This Day in Alaska History-October 8th, 1914
GOP Unveils Stopgap Funding Plan Pushing ‘Manufactured’ Issue of Non-Citizen Voter Fraud
“If Speaker Johnson drives House Republicans down this highly partisan path,” said Democratic leaders, “the odds of a shutdown go way up.” Leading U.S. Senate Democrats on Friday accused House Republicans of “wasting precious time catering to the hard MAGA right” as House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled a stopgap funding bill tied to a proposal that would […]
Peltola Intros Domestic Seafood Production Act
WASHINGTON—This week, Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (AK-AL) introduced the Domestic Seafood Production Act (DSPA), legislation to help address food security in communities historically reliant on coastal and marine resources by helping them build seafood processing capacity for local use. Peltola’s bill would prevent rapid offshore finfish aquaculture permitting and its harmful effects on the environment and local […]
Outrage as Senate Panel Advances Manchin-Barrasso Permitting Bill
One campaigner called the Energy Permitting Reform Act “a shameless attempt by Sen. Joe Manchin to line the pockets of his fossil fuel donors, sacrifice communities, and endanger our climate.” A bipartisan energy permitting reform bill introduced last week in the U.S. Senate—and described by one campaigner as “the biggest giveaway in decades to the fossil fuel […]