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CQ Weekly: "Don Young Gets His Groove Back"
Jan 11, 2011 -
CQ WEEKLY – VANTAGE POINT Jan. 10, 2011 – Page 90 Don Young Gets His Groove Back By Margaret Kriz Hobson, CQ Staff Alaska Republican Don Young , who lowered his profile during the 111th Congress amid questions about a Justice Department ethics probe, is making a comeback this year. Young, 77, will c...
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ICYMI...Indian Country Today: "GOP House creates new Indian subcommittee"
Jan 7, 2011 -
Indian Country Today GOP House creates new Indian subcommittee By Rob Capriccioso, Today staff January 7, 2011 With Republican U.S. House of Representatives settling in to their leadership, Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, has been chosen to chair a newly formed subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Aff...
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Earmarks help state level the playing field
Mar 31, 2010 -
It's that time of year again; the time of year where communities from around the state submit requests for federal funding for their projects of interest and I, in turn, make those appropriation requests to be included in the Fiscal Year 2011 budget. This year, I received 289 requests totaling $1.4 ...
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159 Ways the Senate Bill Is a Government Takeover of Health Care
Feb 25, 2010 -
Here is a list of new boards, bureaucracies, and programs created in the 2,733 page Senate health care bill, which serves as the framework for President Obama’s health proposal: 1. Grant program for consumer assistance offices (Section 1002, p. 37) 2. Grant program for states to monitor premium incr...
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Op-Ed: House health care bill was bad for Alaskans
Nov 13, 2009 -
Like most Americans, I am worried about the health care crisis in our country. In Alaska, 17 percent of the population is uninsured. Some of these individuals work for small businesses that cannot afford to offer insurance like larger employers do; some make a conscious decision not to purchase insu...
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Delegation Announces Grants to Alaska Programs
Sep 11, 2009 -
Washington, D.C. - The Alaska Congressional Delegation is pleased to announce the following awarded to communities in the State of Alaska: U.S. Department of Energy: · $2,688,900 to the City of Anchorage under the Energy Efficiency Conservation Block Grant Program which will allow strategies to be i...
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