Four grants awarded via Safe Streets and Roads for All Program
WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (AK-AL) announced $25,515,000 in new funding for Alaska via the Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) program. The SS4A program, created through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, funds regional, local, and Tribal planning, demonstration, and construction… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Representatives Mary Peltola (D-AK), Rick Larsen (D-WA), and Chris Smith (R-NJ) introduced the Summer Meals Act of 2024, a bipartisan bill to fight childhood hunger by expanding access to healthy, nutritious meals and snacks offered to students during the summer months.
“As a mom to seven, I understand the stress and financial commitment that it takes to feed a… Read more »
WASHINGTON— Representative Mary Sattler Peltola and U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski, today welcomed news that the Alaska Air National Guard (ANG) has been granted an indefinite exemption from the Air National Guard’s “Fulltime Leveling” (FTL) initiative that would have impacted or eliminated nearly 80 Active Guard Reserve positions in Alaska. Major General Duke A. Pirak,… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Representative Mary Sattler Peltola and U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan this week sent a letter to President Joe Biden expressing their continued concern over transboundary mining in British Columbia (B.C.) just upstream of several Southeast Alaska rivers. The delegation has repeatedly urged the Biden administration to help protect Alaska’s communities and… Read more »
WASHINGTON–Representative Mary Sattler Peltola, and U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski, today celebrated a ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of Southeast Alaska troll fishermen whose ability to fish has been challenged in a lawsuit brought forward by the Washington-based Wild Fish Conservancy (WFC), which attempted to shut down the fishery due to unfounded… Read more »
Members tour Alaska resource development projects, meet with Alaska Native stakeholders
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (AK-AL), along with Governor Mike Dunleavy and Senator Dan Sullivan, hosted several of her House Natural Resource Committee colleagues on a trip to the North Slope to learn more about Alaska energy development and Alaska Native priorities,… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (AK-AL) announced $25,207,700 in Airport Improvement Program Grants she voted to fund under FY24 government funding bills. These grants will help replace, reseal, and rehabilitate airport runways and update other necessary infrastructure for safe air travel – much of which is long overdue.
“This funding will help… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (AK-AL) joined an amicus brief urging the Federal District Court for the District of Oregon to grant the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) request for a preliminary injunction in the Kroger-Albertson’s merger case. The brief outlines three major concerns with the merger: harm to consumers, harm to workers, and the growing… Read more »
WASHINGTON—This week, Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (AK-AL) introduced the Domestic Seafood Production Act (DSPA), legislation to help address food security in communities historically reliant on coastal and marine resources by helping them build seafood processing capacity for local use.
Peltola’s bill would prevent rapid offshore finfish aquaculture permitting… Read more »
Peltola bill would fund grants for VSOs to purchase vehicles
WASHINGTON – This month, Representatives Mary Sattler Peltola (AK-AL), James C. Moylan (R-GU-AL), and Steven Horsford (D-NV-04) introduced the Veteran Service Organization Transportation Act, a bill to empower Veterans Service Organizations (VSOs) in highly rural areas to apply for grants to purchase transportation… Read more »
