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George Rauscher“So I'm thinking, can we give him a date range instead of issuing multiple subpoenas and then being able to chalk up the fact that he wasn't able to appear for the first one or the second one.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Resources - October 14, 2026 10:00am · Oct 14, 2026
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Emily Nauman“If the motion gave the chair the authority to issue the subpoena, then the chair might have authority to later decide not to issue the subpoena in the event that, say, the department decided to comply with the intent of the subpoena without the actual subpoena needing to be delivered.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Resources - October 14, 2026 10:00am · Oct 14, 2026
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Tim Powers
“The legislature has already appropriated this money in the budget cycle this last year. We did use a sole source justification, Section 040 exemption for this procurement. KTO has unmatched infrastructure. They already possess the technological setup, the broadcast equipment, and the institutional knowledge and have a working agreement with the legislature that's spanned for over a decade already. It's impractical to put this out for competitive bid.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Legislative Council, 8/25/26, 11am · Aug 25, 2026
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Tim Powers
“Transitioning to a new vendor would require costly duplication of infrastructure and risk disruptive delays to service that the public relies on. Because this contract value exceeds $50,000 in a single fiscal year, Council action is required to approve the contract.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Legislative Council, 8/25/26, 11am · Aug 25, 2026
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Tim Powers
“KTOO, who has provided longstanding public service in broadcast of the legislature by means of gavel-to-gavel coverage of the House and Senate floor sessions and committee meetings. They are essential for transparency for the legislature, for the public in this state, and due to the loss of federal funding last year, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting cut, KTO approached the legislature to secure funding to provide this service continuing.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Legislative Council, 8/25/26, 11am · Aug 25, 2026
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Sara Hannan“Hearing and seeing no questions, I'm going to remove my objection. Ms. Geary, please call the roll on the motion.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Legislative Council, 8/25/26, 11am · Aug 25, 2026
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Sara Hannan“I'm going to object for purpose of discussion and ask Chief Technology and Outreach Officer Tim Powers to provide information and take questions. We also have in the room with us Justin Shoman, who is President and General Manager of KTOO Public Media, and he is available if we have other questions.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Legislative Council, 8/25/26, 11am · Aug 25, 2026
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Sara Hannan“Yes. Chair Hannon. Yes. 8 Yeas, 0 nays. With 8 yeas and 0 nays, the motion has been adopted.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Legislative Council, 8/25/26, 11am · Aug 25, 2026
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Gray Jackson“I move and ask unanimous consent of the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee place the name of Mark Lundahl in nomination before the legislature for appointment as legislative auditor and authorize the chair to transmit the committee's nomination to the presiding officers of the House and Senate.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit 8/20/26, 10:30am · Aug 20, 2026
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Andy Josephson“But I wanted to take 30 seconds to talk about Ms. Curtis. So I just want to thank her for her state service, for her exemplary performance and integrity.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit 8/20/26, 10:30am · Aug 20, 2026
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Gray Jackson“As noted during our July meeting, after 34 years with the Division of Legislative Audit, serving 12 of those years as a legislative auditor, Chris Curtis submitted her letter of resignation to the committee in June with an effective date of August 30th. In response, a recruitment was initiated and a job announcement was posted to Workplace Alaska for 3 weeks. 3 Weeks. Last Thursday, a subcommittee comprised of myself, Vice Chair Fields, and Representative Kopp interviewed Mark Lundahl for the legislative auditor position. Mr. Lundahl was the only applicant determined to meet the qualifications for the position.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit 8/20/26, 10:30am · Aug 20, 2026
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Gray Jackson“the motion is approved and the committee will place the name of Mark Lundell in nomination before the legislature for appointment as legislative auditor. And I'll transmit the committee's nomination to the presiding officers of the House and the Senate for consideration and a vote by the legislature on the appointment. But please note, if the 34th legislature does not convene before the conclusion of its term and therefore does not vote on this nomination, I will submit the committee's nomination to the incoming presiding officers for consideration by the 35th Legislature.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit 8/20/26, 10:30am · Aug 20, 2026
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Gray Jackson“On August 13th, a subcommittee of Vice Chair Fields, Representative Kopp, and I, as mentioned, we interviewed Mr. Lundell, and after the interview, we determined that we wanted to move his name forward to the committee to be the State Auditor. I followed through with checking the references that he presented to us, and every one of those references recommended him with flying colors.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit 8/20/26, 10:30am · Aug 20, 2026
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Andy Josephson“She stood up for us, and she stood up for the power of the auditor under law, um, even when it was under attack. So she will be missed.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit 8/20/26, 10:30am · Aug 20, 2026
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Andy Josephson“I'm certainly not going to object. I support Mr. Lindahl fully, and I congratulate him.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit 8/20/26, 10:30am · Aug 20, 2026
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Gray Jackson“Also, under Alaska Statute 24-20251, because the legislature is not currently in session, Mr. Lundell will begin carrying out the duties of the legislative auditor on August 31st, 2026, and will serve as acting legislative auditor pending consideration of the nomination by the legislature.”
Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit 8/20/26, 10:30am · Aug 20, 2026
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“As we are in a technical session, there are no special orders today. The Senate will stand in adjournment until 2 p.m. on Friday, August 21, 2026.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Floor Session - August 17, 2026 11:00am · Aug 17, 2026
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“I have no communications. Thank you. Are there any reports of standing committees? I have no reports of standing committees.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Floor Session - August 17, 2026 11:00am · Aug 17, 2026
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“As we are in a technical session, there are no Senate resolutions for introduction today, no Senate bills for introduction today, no items on today's daily calendar, and no matters of unfinished business in order today.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Floor Session - August 17, 2026 11:00am · Aug 17, 2026
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“Will the Senate please come to order for the purpose of a technical session. The roll call is waived for today. Since we are in a technical session, we will forego the invocation, pledge of allegiance, certification of the journal.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Floor Session - August 17, 2026 11:00am · Aug 17, 2026
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“I have no messages from the Governor this morning, Madam President. Are there any messages from the House? There are no messages from the House this morning.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Floor Session - August 17, 2026 11:00am · Aug 17, 2026
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Jesse Kiehl“Well, the Senate, please come to order for the purposes of a technical session. Because we are in a technical session, the roll call is waived today”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Floor Session - August 11, 2026 11:00am · Aug 11, 2026
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Jesse Kiehl“As we're in a technical session, there are no Senate resolutions for introduction today, nor Senate bills.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Floor Session - August 11, 2026 11:00am · Aug 11, 2026
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Jesse Kiehl“There are no items of business on today's daily calendar, and no matters of unfinished business are in order today.”
Alaska Legislature: Senate Floor Session - August 11, 2026 11:00am · Aug 11, 2026
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Gary Stevens“We have not seen the bill. We don't know what's in it. We're anxious to see it. Of course, the problem is that this session, special session, ends on the 25th. So getting that bill on the 20th and getting through it by the 25th is very, very difficult, mainly because, as I've said, we don't know what's in it.”
Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10
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Gary Stevens“That's, to me, the biggest problem right now is the time to get it done. I honestly don't believe in 5 days we can do it.”
Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10
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Bill Wielechowski“Saying that we don't need anything, we don't need any property tax breaks, to we need a billion dollars in property tax breaks. Saying that yes, we're willing to pay our share of corporate income taxes, to which would be $466 million, to we don't want to pay a penny of corporate income taxes even if we're making $5 billion in profits.”
Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10
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Bill Wielechowski“the fact that BlueCrest has what we believe to be several, probably a couple hundred billion cubic feet of gas, and that's very recoverable. And we need to hear from the Department of Natural Resources as to why they have let BlueCrest sit on those leases for a decade and not enforce the leases.”
Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10
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Jeff Landfield“Why do— why does the state keep stringing along Hex, John Hendricks, and BlueCrest when they haven't produced— BlueCrest, no gas.”
Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10
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Gary Stevens“the governor has told me that he will be presenting us a bill on the 20th of August.”
Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10
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Bill Wielechowski“HEX, it was unbelievably unfortunate that the state got leveraged, the state got put in a position where because HEX had overriding royalty interests of 12.5%, it made the projects undevelopable, Kitchen Lights undevelopable. And so the state agreed to massively cut our royalty share with really no protections for providing that to Alaskan consumers or anything else. So I would say really colossal mismanagement by the administration.”
Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10
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Bill Wielechowski“if DNR and the governor's office are allowing BlueCrest to sit on what we believe to be 300 billion cubic feet of gas, that is only hurting our situation this winter. If they're allowing— if they're blocking storage issues for this winter or not moving forward and helping storage issues, that is only going to make this situation worse.”
Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10
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Bill Wielechowski“you're looking at at least 3, probably 4 days on a— if we wanted to rubber stamp a bill.”
Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10
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Jeff Landfield“Hex Hendrix has been getting 75% royalty reductions. I mean, these people have been around for a long time, and they're getting loans from ADA, and they're asking for loans, and they're asking the state for $100 million. Neither one have a rig. Hillcorp has demonstrated they've spent $1.5 billion in the inlet. They've spent billions on the North Slope.”
Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10
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Gary Stevens“the Senate has passed two versions of legislation. Both of them give Glenfarm roughly $1 billion a year in tax breaks they asked for, and both have added protections for the state we thought needed to be there, including timeline insurances, liability safeguards, and project labor and apprenticeship guarantees. Governor, as you know, has declined to support either of those bills”
Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10
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Bill Wielechowski“The problem is the governor said he will deliver us the bill on the 20th and this special session is over on the 25th.”
Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10
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Bill Wielechowski“the Dunleavy approach in Cook Inlet, a laissez-faire approach of just let industry do whatever they want with no oversight— I mean, BlueCrest is— and you raise a good example, Jeff. BlueCrest, that lease should have been taken away, in my opinion.”
Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10
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Bill Wielechowski“if the plan is to get us a bill and then just expect us to rubber stamp it, that's not going to happen in the Senate.”
Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10
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Bill Wielechowski“the last bill we passed We were all told by at least one member of the conference committee that Glenfarm had agreed to it. And that they were going to put out a press release saying they supported it. And then at the last minute, they changed their position on it.”
Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10
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Bill Wielechowski“The $65, $70 billion number, quite frankly, is probably even low.”
Alaska Legislature recording 2026-08-10