Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid filed cloture on Senate Bill 2363, the Bipartisan Sportsman’s Act, without any Republican amendments added to it this morning. This action by Reid will probably cause Republicans, 20 of which have co-sponsored the bill, to pull their backing and filibuster the bill. It was only Monday that the Senate voted […]
Senator Lisa Murkowski today continued to advocate for Arctic investment with her colleagues on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security. While discussing the Fiscal Year 2015 Homeland Security funding bill, Murkowski insisted that the committee focus more on Arctic issues like maritime commerce, natural resource development, Coast Guard search and rescue, and the critical […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Lisa Murkowski today successfully added a key amendment to the 2015 State and Foreign Operations spending bill to restore the J-1 Visa program through Fiscal Year 2015 and help Alaska’s seafood processors statewide hire needed staff – after the State Department had suspended visas due to concerns rising from Lower 48 activities. […]
In a letter to Senator Lisa Murkowski on Friday, the Archivist of the United Stated, David Ferriero, informed that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) had completed their assessment of the Alaska State Archives and had determined that the NARA did not require the permanent preservation of the Alaska Court Records pre-dating statehood and […]