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 […]
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – The Alaska National Guard Officer’s Association, in conjunction with the Military Officer’s Association of America, presented U.S. Representative Don Young with an award during a dinner held at The Westmark Hotel in Anchorage, May 28. Congressman Young was presented the 2014 Charles Dick Medal of Merit in recognition of his […]
Washington, D.C. – Alaskan Congressman Don Young Wednesday joined the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the Alaska Migratory Bird Co-Management Council (AMBCC) to announce new guidance to implement the federal duck stamp exemption he ushered into law during the 113th Congress for subsistence hunters in rural Alaska. “Today, I’m proud to announce the […]