Rep. Don Young

Lower 48 tribes help fuel Young's campaign fundraising

Alaska Rep. Don Young nearly doubled his fundraising in late 2011 with help from Lower 48 Indian tribes, boosting his re-election campaign though he's facing no established challengers.

Don Young gets all nostalgic about earmarks

Alaska Rep. Don Young caused "nervous tittering" among his Republican colleagues at a press conference in Washington today when he lamented the lack of earmarks in a transportation/energy/jobs bill, reports The New York Times.

Alaska delegation vows to resist base closures

Members of the Alaska delegation and others in Congress are vowing to resist a recommendation from the Pentagon to close military bases around the country.

Alaska politicians pledge to oppose military base cutbacks

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's announcement that the Pentagon will seek new rounds of military base closures drew a swift response from Alaskans who watched a similar process nearly gut Eielson Air Force Base in 2005.

Pentagon outlines budget-cut strategies

Bipartisan seating set for State of the Union speech

The partisan atmosphere in Congress has become so poisonous it's reached the point where the Alaska delegation and others are touting the fact they'll be sitting with a member of the opposite party when the president gives his State of the Union speech today.

Obama attacks income disparity in State of Union excerpts

Stream of cash for bridge over Knik Arm is drying up

The billion-dollar Knik Arm bridge project in Anchorage has financial problems, with no more money coming from Congress and the Alaska governor and a key legislator balking at putting state money on the line.

Murkowski, Begich oppose online piracy legislation

As Wikipedia went dark and Google blacked out its logo today in protest of a congressional bill meant to fight online piracy, Alaska Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich said they're opposing the legislation.

Feds must justify secrecy on Young investigation files

A federal judge in Washington ruled today that the Justice Department was wrong in categorically refusing to provide any of its criminal investigative files on Alaska Rep. Don Young to an anti-corruption public interest group.

PDF: Judge's ruling on Young files

Few Democrats line up to take on Congressman Young

Alaska Republican Congressman Don Young is preparing to run for his 21st two-year term and the Democrats still don't have a recognizable challenger out raising campaign cash as the year ends.

Donations to Young challenged ethics principles, committee says

Alaska Rep. Don Young was acting within the rules when he accepted $60,000 in checks for his legal defense fund from a Louisiana businessman with interests in Alaska oil drilling. But the House Ethics Committee said Tuesday it worried that the donation "challenges the principles" of contribution limits.

PDF: Ethics Committee report on contributions to Young

Young calls on Senate to pass payroll tax cut

Alaska Rep. Don Young has voted with the majority in passing legislation that extends Social Security payroll tax cuts through 2012.

Begich tops Murkowski, Young in estimated worth

Sen. Mark Begich appears to be the most affluent among the Alaska congressional delegation, with a net worth estimated by the Center for Responsive Politics at $2.3 million.

Young legal fund is target of ethics probe

The U.S. House Ethics Committee is considering whether to investigate Alaska Rep. Don Young, after an inquiry into whether donations to the Republican's legal defense fund exceeded the contribution limit.

ANWR dustup between Young and historian turned personal

The feud between Alaska congressman Don Young and prominent historian Douglas Brinkley that started at a House committee hearing last week has continued, with Brinkley calling Young a bully and a "low-grade Joseph McCarthy."

Video: Young and historian trade insults in House hearing on ANWR

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Video: Young and historian trade insults in House hearing on ANWR

A House Natural Resources Committee hearing Friday on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain got hot when Alaska Rep. Don Young exchanged insults with Rice University historian Douglas Brinkley, author of "The Quiet World: Saving Alaska's Wilderness Kingdom." "How exactly did Rep. Don Young and Douglas Brinkley get off on the wrong foot?" wonders The Washington Post. "Was it when the Alaska Republican called the historian's testimony 'garbage'? Or was it when Brinkley talked back? From that point, it was on - a verbal smackdown that startled the most jaded staffers." Watch the video here -- the main battle occurs in the first couple of minutes. Continued on jump

Young: Oil funds used in terror

Rep. Don Young is using terrorism in his argument for opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.

Young is most-absent lawmaker who isn't ill or running for president

A spokesman for Alaska Rep. Don Young claims the long-serving Republican is not too concerned about Monday's revelation from The New York Times that he has been the most-absent House member in the current Congress -- save for two who are campaigning for president, one who has cancer and one recovering from an assassination attempt. Young has missed 16 percent of votes, including some that his fellow Republicans considered big ones. Continued on jump

Delegation seeks to rename courthouse for Fitzgerald

The Alaska congressional delegation wants to honor the late Judge James M. Fitzgerald by renaming the Anchorage federal courthouse after him.

Ex-lobbyist linked to Young aide serves afternoon in jail for Yankees trip

A former Senate Republican aide who became a lobbyist was sent to jail for the afternoon today for treating Capitol Hill staffers -- including an aide to Alaska Rep. Don Young -- to a World Series game, in a case arising from the Jack Abramoff scandal.

Young wants to roll back all federal regulations since '91

Alaska Rep. Don Young suggested Tuesday he plans to introduce a bill to repeal every federal regulation put into effect in the past 20 years, an idea that could have huge implications for everything from aviation safety to oil drilling.

Packages sent to lawmakers held concrete mix, FBI says

The FBI says a white powder in packages sent to members of Alaska's congressional delegation was not a hazardous substance but a sample of concrete material, according to two of the lawmakers.