Mike Dunleavy
7:18 - 7:37
“we got about three weeks left in the session.”
- Speaker
- Mike Dunleavy
- Timestamp
- 7:18 – 7:37
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
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From the transcript
And so this PILT is crucial. Whether it's Glen Farm, whether it's any other outfit that does gas and builds gas pipelines and operates gas pipeline, it's really about us. We need to revisit this in which the legislature is. And I'm grateful for that, and I'm thankful for that. But we got about three weeks left in the session.
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