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Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.

Andrew Gray “I beg people to vote no on this ballot measure. It is unnecessary. Our law is currently clear. Do not hamstring the legislature from being able to do the moral right thing and help American Samoans vote.”

Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260727-1130 Ballot Measure 3 Public Hearing

Andrew Gray “In Alaska, non-U.S. citizens are already forbidden from voting in local and state elections. This is what led to the arrest of voters in Whittier a couple of years ago.”

Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260727-1130 Ballot Measure 3 Public Hearing

Alyse Galvin “When I would be comfortable supporting it if I knew we actually had a problem. If somebody said, look at all these voters who shouldn't have voted. Well, you just heard from our representative from the Umeå district that that has happened in the Samoan community.”

Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260727-1130 Ballot Measure 3 Public Hearing

Nancy Dahlstrom “this initiative cannot be amended or altered”

Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260727-0900 2026 Primary Election, Ballot Measure No 1 23RCF2, Initiative Hearings · Jul 27, 2026

Alyse Galvin “How do we make sure we can have funding in elections, but the right amount so that it's not too much influence by someone who may have a lot of money or an entity that may have a lot of money”

Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260727-0900 2026 Primary Election, Ballot Measure No 1 23RCF2, Initiative Hearings · Jul 27, 2026

Nancy Dahlstrom “These limits would increase with inflation every 10 years beginning in 2031.”

Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260727-0900 2026 Primary Election, Ballot Measure No 1 23RCF2, Initiative Hearings · Jul 27, 2026

Nancy Dahlstrom “With this act, individuals could give $2,000 to candidates and $5,000 to political parties. Groups besides Political parties could give $4,000 to candidates and $5,000 to other parties or groups.”

Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260727-0900 2026 Primary Election, Ballot Measure No 1 23RCF2, Initiative Hearings · Jul 27, 2026

Sarah Cook

“So the average for that is $3,370,000.”

Ketchikan: Healthcare Advisory Committee - July 23, 2026 · Jul 27, 2026

Sarah Cook

“We did over 1,200 more than we expected last year. Yeah, so that's one of the asks for Rural Health Transformation Funds next year is funds to expand our chairs and space”

Ketchikan: Healthcare Advisory Committee - July 23, 2026 · Jul 27, 2026

Sarah Cook

“The 3-year average is still a negative because of the negative first 2 years. And then even with the negative, it shows the 3 years of annual capital investment. So $6 million in— a little over $6 million in fiscal year '24, almost $2 million in '25, and $1.7 million in '26.”

Ketchikan: Healthcare Advisory Committee - July 23, 2026 · Jul 27, 2026

Sarah Cook

“just better management of our budgets and our expenses and watching things a little bit more closely. Also filling full-time positions. We normally run at 35 travelers and we've kept it under like 12.”

Ketchikan: Healthcare Advisory Committee - July 23, 2026 · Jul 27, 2026

Sarah Cook

“we have been not doing great this fiscal year. We did really well, um, comparatively, so we actually had a positive, um, operation this year.”

Ketchikan: Healthcare Advisory Committee - July 23, 2026 · Jul 27, 2026

Donald Trump “They would not have requested the meeting if we were doing poorly. The only reason they want to meet is because we've been hitting them very hard.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One En Route Waterford Township, MI, Jul. 27, 2026 · Jul 27, 2026

Donald Trump “We've pretty much destroyed their military. They want to meet, and we're meeting. We'll see what happens. There's a chance we could make a deal. Without what we did, they wouldn't even be talking to us.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One En Route Waterford Township, MI, Jul. 27, 2026 · Jul 27, 2026

Donald Trump “Hasn't had much impact because we've knocked the hell out of them.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One En Route Waterford Township, MI, Jul. 27, 2026 · Jul 27, 2026

Donald Trump “Are you on the same page on Iran, you and Prime Minister Netanyahu? Pretty close, yeah. Pretty close. We have a little difference, but pretty close, yeah. You know, Iran took a beating over the last 14 days.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One En Route Waterford Township, MI, Jul. 27, 2026 · Jul 27, 2026

Donald Trump “Their whole The shoreline is wiped out. The strait is in very good shape. And we're talking right now. You know, they wanted to talk.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One En Route Waterford Township, MI, Jul. 27, 2026 · Jul 27, 2026

Donald Trump “Their people said, "Please don't drop— don't shoot last night, the night before, for 2 nights. Don't do it." You know, we're having good talks. So we'll see what happens. I think there's a good chance that something could happen. And if it does, good.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One En Route Waterford Township, MI, Jul. 27, 2026 · Jul 27, 2026

Donald Trump “If I didn't blow up those nuclear— essentially, soon-to-be nuclear weapons, the dust, as I call it, Israel would have been terminated months ago and years ago if I didn't terminate the Obama horrible agreement.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One En Route Waterford Township, MI, Jul. 27, 2026 · Jul 27, 2026

Donald Trump “And they asked us very nicely, please stop. Let's meet. And that's what we are right now. We'll see what happens. If we don't make a deal, we go back to the same thing.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One En Route Waterford Township, MI, Jul. 27, 2026 · Jul 27, 2026

Donald Trump “No, no, we're going to use Iran's money to pay for the damage they did. In other words, the Iran money that we control will be used to pay for damages. Sound good? Not bad, right? We should be rewarded.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One En Route Waterford Township, MI, Jul. 27, 2026 · Jul 27, 2026

Donald Trump “I don't think, I don't think they've been doing it, certainly not at a high level. And if they have, it has been very unimpactful.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One En Route Waterford Township, MI, Jul. 27, 2026 · Jul 27, 2026

Donald Trump “You know, Biden gave a lot to Ukraine. And so we're building that up. But we have a lot. We have a lot of the mid-level stuff too. I mean, more than we could ever use, no matter what.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One En Route Waterford Township, MI, Jul. 27, 2026 · Jul 27, 2026

Donald Trump “And it's a problem that we had a while ago and we knocked the hell out of them, as you know. And we didn't have any problems with the Houthis after that. But we're not involved with that. But we may, you know, if they're a problem, we'll probably have to get involved.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One En Route Waterford Township, MI, Jul. 27, 2026 · Jul 27, 2026

Donald Trump “They requested a meeting through their through surrogates and directly. And we're meeting, and, you know, good things can happen, I guess. Oil dropped very big today. Stock markets, as of about an hour ago, was like through the roof. But, no, they requested a meeting.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press on Air Force One En Route Waterford Township, MI, Jul. 27, 2026 · Jul 27, 2026

Brian Babin “The ayes have it, and the bill as amended is ordered favorably reported without objection to the motion to reconsider as laid on the table.”

House Science, Space, and Technology (Begich): Full Committee Markup · Jul 21, 2026

Nick Begich “This bill locks in the funding to finish that system with at least $30 million a year dedicated to it through fiscal year 2030. The bill also pushes ShakeAlert expansion forward and requires coordination with the FCC so earthquake alerts reach people quickly.”

House Science, Space, and Technology (Begich): Full Committee Markup · Jul 21, 2026

Nick Begich “Alaska is the most earthquake-prone state in the country, seeing a magnitude 7.0 almost every year and a magnitude 8.0 roughly every 13 years. For us, that's just the reality of living in Alaska. NEHRP brings together USGS, FEMA, NIST, and the National Science Foundation so that monitoring, mapping, engineering research, and building codes function as one system rather than separate efforts.”

House Science, Space, and Technology (Begich): Full Committee Markup · Jul 21, 2026

Brian Babin “The ayes have it, and the bill as amended is ordered favorably reported.”

House Science, Space, and Technology (Begich): Full Committee Markup · Jul 21, 2026

Brian Babin “The four bipartisan bills before us strengthen our research enterprise and improve public safety, support domestic energy development, and reinforce American leadership in critical and emerging technologies.”

House Science, Space, and Technology (Begich): Full Committee Markup · Jul 21, 2026

Brian Babin “According to the U.S.-China Business Council, citing French Association for Standardization data, the number of Chinese-held secretariat positions within the International Organization for Standardization increased 58% between 2011 and 2021, while American-held positions have remained flat. If we are not in the room, others will write the rules that shape the future of these technologies.”

House Science, Space, and Technology (Begich): Full Committee Markup · Jul 21, 2026

Brian Babin “Earthquakes are one of the most destructive natural disasters facing our nation. According to a USGS-FEMA report, earthquakes caused nearly $15 billion in damages in 2023. This bill reauthorizes a program that has protected American lives for nearly 5 decades while modernizing our earthquake early warning system and enhancing coordination across federal, state, and our local partners.”

House Science, Space, and Technology (Begich): Full Committee Markup · Jul 21, 2026

Nick Begich “A successful demonstration near Unalaska or Akutan, both adjacent to active volcano systems, could change the energy economies of entire regions. Less diesel dependence, less supply chain vulnerability, and less energy poverty in some of the most remote areas of North America.”

House Science, Space, and Technology (Begich): Full Committee Markup · Jul 21, 2026

Nick Begich “This bill brings tribal governments into that structure directly, adding them to the advisory committee to USGS's coordination responsibilities and to early warning system planning.”

House Science, Space, and Technology (Begich): Full Committee Markup · Jul 21, 2026

Nick Begich “The bill also prioritizes projects on or near Indian land, which puts ultra-rural communities in geothermal-rich corridors squarely in scope.”

House Science, Space, and Technology (Begich): Full Committee Markup · Jul 21, 2026

Zoe Lofgren “the program does not have funds authorized. I actually disagree with that, but I understand that the majority does operate within the constraints imposed by its majority. And so in the spirit of comedy, I'm offering this amendment with the notation that the— you, Mr. Chairman, and the majority have offered to work with us so that NIST will have resources to carry out the activities authorized under this bill.”

House Science, Space, and Technology (Begich): Full Committee Markup · Jul 21, 2026

Nick Begich “The Geopower Act takes that on directly. It sets up a milestone-based geothermal demonstration program at the Department of Energy aimed at next-generation geothermal systems in low permeability and impermeable reservoirs.— the kind of geology that falls outside the traditional hydrothermal zones we've relied on out in the West. Financing is tied to technical and financial milestones rather than upfront grants, which protects taxpayers.”

House Science, Space, and Technology (Begich): Full Committee Markup · Jul 21, 2026

Brian Babin “The ayes have it, and the bill as amended is ordered favorably reported without objection.”

House Science, Space, and Technology (Begich): Full Committee Markup · Jul 21, 2026

Matt Heller

“Mining and processing of heavy mineral sands has resumed in Virginia, and industry stakeholders have expressed gratitude for this foundational data.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources (Begich): Legislative Hearing on the following bill · Jul 21, 2026

Rory Day-Stirrat

“Since its establishment in 2019, Earth MRI has provided $78.6 million directly to state geological surveys. 46 States and Puerto Rico have been involved in Earth MRI.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources (Begich): Legislative Hearing on the following bill · Jul 21, 2026

Emily Domenech

“H.R. 8003 Would lower the investment threshold for covered projects from $200 million to $50 million starting at the beginning of 2027. Since I took on the role of executive director, I have heard from numerous project sponsors that the investment threshold is simply too high for their various projects to qualify. These projects span across multiple sectors, from energy and electricity transmission to broadband, ports, and waterways.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources (Begich): Legislative Hearing on the following bill · Jul 21, 2026

Emily Domenech

“26 FAST-41 projects have been completed since January of last year, which is about one-fourth of the projects that have ever been completed in this agency's history.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources (Begich): Legislative Hearing on the following bill · Jul 21, 2026

Rory Day-Stirrat

“What makes Earth MRI particularly effective is that it operates in the pre-competitive space. The program does not subsidize individual companies or, or individual projects. Instead, it creates publicly available geologic information that reduces uncertainty for everyone— state governments, federal agencies, tribal nations, universities, land managers, private industry. We all benefit from the same data.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources (Begich): Legislative Hearing on the following bill · Jul 21, 2026

Rory Day-Stirrat

“My testimony is simple: Earth MRI is working and it deserves reauthorization. Strategic means we want something, and critical means we do not have it. USGS has identified 60 mineral commodities spread across the periodic table that are at risk of supply chain disruption or are not produced in the United States.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources (Begich): Legislative Hearing on the following bill · Jul 21, 2026

Nick Begich “That calculus is amplified in Alaska, where every acre of subsurface and surface disturbance triggers extensive federal review, and remote logistics make each borehole extraordinarily expensive. What magnitude of drilling and surface disturbance reduction have you seen or modeled, and how transformational could that be for Alaska projects where a smaller exploration footprint directly reduces both permitting risk and cost?”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources (Begich): Legislative Hearing on the following bill · Jul 21, 2026

Nick Begich “Alaska has the opposite scale problem. Alaska, 365 million acres, most of it federally managed with vast interior regions never mapped by modern methods. What lessons from Virginia's sequencing of geophysical surveys, geochemistry, and field verification would you apply to a coordinated Alaska mapping effort, and how should reauthorization ensure Alaska's scale is met with commensurate investment?”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources (Begich): Legislative Hearing on the following bill · Jul 21, 2026

Pete Stauber “H.R. 9640, Introduced by Representatives Whitman and Dingell, would reauthorize Earth MRI for another 5 years, continuing the important work of mapping our nation's surface and subsurface resources. This reauthorization is crucial to continue initial comprehensive national modern surface and subsurface map and data integration.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources (Begich): Legislative Hearing on the following bill · Jul 21, 2026

Emily Domenech

“I don't actually have the ability to force an agency to give me a timetable.”

House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources (Begich): Legislative Hearing on the following bill · Jul 21, 2026

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