ANCHORAGE: Politico reports that Alaska Rep. Don Young has made another unseemly decision. Young is holding a fundraiser in Puerto Rico that is hosted by a pro-state political action committee, only days before he chairs a subcommittee hearing on the issue of Puerto Rican Statehood. Young has been a long time proponent of Puerto Rican […]
The House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs held a hearing for H.R. 2386. U.S. Congressman Don Young, who introduced the bill, chairs the subcommittee. The federal legislation would recognize aboriginal land claims for five traditional villages that were excluded from the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), including […]
Washington, D.C. – A panel of Alaskan witnesses testified Tuesday before the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy & Minerals Resources to discuss the future of Arctic offshore energy development and recent regulatory decisions by the Obama Administration that would significantly harm development in the region. The oversight hearing, titled “Arctic Resources and American Competitiveness,” […]
On his birthday, Alaska’s lone representative in Washington and the nation’s longest-serving GOP member of the House, got married. 82-year-old Don Young’s new bride is 76-year-old Anne Garland Walton. The couple was married in the U.S. Capitol Building chapel. Reverand Patrick Conroy, the Chaplain for the House of Representatives,officiated over the ceremony. They became engaged […]