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Joyce Anderson

138:09 - 138:31

"then it went over to the Senate and Senator Keele had a couple questions. There were a couple amendments made which were areas that were not quite picked up by anybody, which I have to give his office credit for. So we made those technical changes to make it look good."

then it went over to the Senate and Senator Keele had a couple questions. There were a couple amendments made which were areas that were not quite picked up by anybody, which I have to give his office credit for. So we made those technical changes to make it look good.
Speaker
Joyce Anderson
Community
Alaska News
Location
Juneau
Captured at
June 26, 2026

From the transcript

I don't think we've ever, in my term, there's ever been an ethics bill that didn't have amendments. So that was something wonderful. Of course, then it went over to the Senate and Senator Keele had a couple questions. There were a couple amendments made which were areas that were not quite picked up by anybody, which I have to give his office credit for. So we made those technical changes to make it look good.

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