Liz Ruskin
D.C. Correspondent at Alaska Public Media
DC correspondent, Alaska Public Media. On BlueSky I’m lizruskin. Newsletter: Alaska At-Large @AKpublicnews News tips: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
ktoo.org | Liz Ruskin
WASHINGTON — Drue Pearce, a former president of the Alaska Senate, has taken a new job in the U.S. Interior Department. “I’m counselor to the assistant secretary in the Land and Minerals hallway,” she said in an interview from her new office. “Hallway” is not actually part of her title, but it does describe how the Interior Department’s D.C. headquarters is organized.
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2 weeks ago |
alaskapublic.org | Liz Ruskin
WASHINGTON — Drue Pearce, a former president of the Alaska Senate, has taken a new job in the U.S. Interior Department. “I'm counselor to the assistant secretary in the Land and Minerals hallway,” she said in an interview from her new office. “Hallway” is not actually part of her title, but it does describe how the Interior Department’s D.C. headquarters is organized.
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2 weeks ago |
ktoo.org | Liz Ruskin
WASHINGTON — Without a single vote to spare, the U.S. House passed a mega-bill early Thursday that’s chock-full of Republican priorities. Alaska Congressman Nick Begich, like nearly all Republicans, voted for it. “This is a great bill for Alaska,” he said in his Washington, D.C. office, a few hours after the vote. “It preserves the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, so it keeps taxes low for working Americans, working Alaskans.
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2 weeks ago |
alaskapublic.org | Liz Ruskin
WASHINGTON — Without a single vote to spare, the U.S. House passed a mega-bill early Thursday that’s chock-full of Republican priorities. Alaska Congressman Nick Begich, like nearly all Republicans, voted for it. “This is a great bill for Alaska,” he said in his Washington, D.C., a few hours after the vote. “It preserves the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, so it keeps taxes low for working Americans, working Alaskans.
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3 weeks ago |
ktoo.org | Liz Ruskin
WASHINGTON — An estimated 14,000 Alaskans, and millions of Americans, would lose their health insurance from one feature of the Republican budget reconciliation bill now pending in Congress. That element is a requirement that certain Medicaid recipients prove that they worked at least 80 hours each month. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders confronted Health Secretary Robert Kennedy about it Wednesday at a Senate hearing.
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It was oddly quiet as U.S. House Resources advanced development in the Arctic, ANWR, Ambler road, etc. @RepNickBegich and fellow Republicans stayed mum. They had the votes. https://t.co/fBd5NmxS6m
RT @frankthorp: NEW: Senate Judiciary Cmte Chair GRASSLEY says RE: why he didn't list Ed Martin on the Judiciary Cmte agenda for this week:…
Non-citizens are accused of voting in tiny Whittier, Alaska. A coupla facts make it not a great fit for the “stolen election” narrative. https://t.co/JD0BNpgfDi