WASHINGTON, July 8 -- Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: Anchorage, AK--U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both R-Alaska, issued the following statements criticizing the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) after it released a final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) recommending the revocation of five Public Land Orders (PLOs) signed in January 2021 that would return 28 million acres of Alaska lands to federal multiple use status, and instead maintain a   more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on July 9, 2024: Today, bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Lisa Murkowski (R- Alaska), to extend federal programs that help support local fire departments across the country has been signed into law. The bill reauthorizes the Federal Emergency Management  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned witnesses at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled, "Closing the Justice Gap: How to Make the Civil Justice System Accessible to All Americans." Today's hearing examined the "civil justice gap," which is the gap between the civil legal needs of low-income Americans and the services available to m  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Senator Joe Manchin (I-WV), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, introduced the bipartisan Department of Energy AI Act to advance American leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) by harnessing the existing National Laboratory infrastructure and workforce at the Department of Energy (DOE). "Artificial Intelligence has the potenti  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Rep. Mary Sattler Peltola, D-Alaska, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Representative Mary Peltola (AK-AL) helped introduce the Native Arts and Culture Promotion Act with Representative Jill Tokuda (HI-02). Their bill would ensure that Native organizations can fully access funding they are entitled to under the Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development Program for cultural programming and activities. "Alaska Native cultures extend back t  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 (TNSres) -- Rep. Mary Sattler Peltola, D-Alaska, issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: Today, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report entitled, Federal Fisheries Management: Efforts to Reduce and Monitor Unintentional Catch and Harm Need Better Tracking. The report found that federal efforts to monitor and reduce bycatch in U.S. fisheries are lacking. "Alaskans and our fishing families know bycatch is a huge problem, but we also k  more

WASHINGTON, July 10 (TNSres) -- Rep. Mary Sattler Peltola, D-Alaska, issued the following statement on July 9, 2024: * * * Today, following the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's announcement to add seafood to the list of high-priority sectors for enforcement under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (AK-AL) released the following statement: "America - and Alaska specifically - produces the cleanest, best quality fish, and we pay our workers a livin  more

WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Rep. Jill Tokuda, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on July 9, 2024: Today, U.S. Representative Jill Tokuda (HI-02) introduced a bill to ensure that Native Hawaiian organizations can fully access funding they are entitled to under the Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development Program for cultural programming and activities. The Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development Program was created in 1984 to provide grants throu  more

WASHINGTON, July 12 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: Yesterday, U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), vice chairman of the Committee, led a legislative hearing on - * S. 2783, Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendments Act; * S. 3406, Technical Corrections to the Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water Projects Act, Taos Puebl  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Rep. Norma J. Torres, D-California, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Norma Torres (CA-35) - released a statement following the release of information from the Ninth Circuit on investigating U.S. District Judge Joshua M. Kindred of the District of Alaska on judicial and sexual misconduct abuse towards clerks. "No American should suffer sexual misconduct, abuse, or harassment while on the job, yet it continues even in the halls of our judicial system - that  more

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), released the following statement as the annual North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit began today in Washington. Senator Sullivan met with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today and is scheduled to meet with other high-ranking foreign officials th  more