Rep. Chris Tuck’s Community Connection: Snow Plowing Alert
March 17, 2011
I just received notice that Anchorage and MatSu are receiving a hefty amount of fresh snow.
The State Department of Transportation has assured legislators that they have all available plows out to clear state-maintained roads for safe travel as soon as possible.
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House Passes Resolution Urging TSA to End Invasive Procedures
March 11, 2011
New procedures go too far, sacrifice dignity
JUNEAU – Today, The Alaska House of Representatives passed a resolution (HCR8) by Representative Chris Tuck (D-Anchorage) urging the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) to end its recently implemented invasive pat-down procedures and immediately revert to its prior, less invasive, protocol. Representative Sharon Cissna (D-Anchorage), who recently earned national attention for refusing to participate in a TSA pat-down, co-authored the resolution.
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Alaska Democrats Push Federal Bureaucrats to Allow NPR-A Oil Development
March 1, 2011
JUNEAU – Today, fourteen Democratic members of the Alaska Legislature called on the Obama Administration to resolve permit issues that are delaying ConocoPhillips’ efforts to develop a new oil field in the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska (NPR-A). Last year, the Army Corps of Engineers rejected Conoco’s permit application to build a bridge across the Coleville River that the company needs to access the new field just west of its Alpine oil field, the third largest in Alaska.
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Alaska State House Agrees: No One Should Have to Sacrifice Dignity to Travel
February 23, 2011
Rep. Tuck’s Sense of the House supporting Rep. Cissna passes overwhelmingly
JUNEAU – Today, the House of Representatives in the Alaska State Legislature overwhelmingly passed a Sense of the House stating that “no one should have to sacrifice their dignity in order to travel.”
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Preschool Pays Off for Kids, Public: House Democrats Show How
February 17, 2011
JUNEAU – Representatives Les Gara and Chris Tuck (both D-Anchorage), and Representative Scott Kawasaki (D-Fairbanks) made the case for increasing early childhood development efforts in Alaska. The representatives highlighted the economic returns of preschool education to Alaskan children, their families, and to the state as a whole, and they offered specific solutions for how Alaska can start realizing those benefits.
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