Stevens for Senate Committee Blog
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Blog Watch
For the Nay Sayers
By: Patrick Kerley
Date: September 25, 2008
Amongst the attacks being launched nowadays, we hear about how Senator Stevens has lost effectiveness. Somehow, being in the minority party of the Senate undoes 40 years of seniority in the eyes of some. We have seen recently, a lot of evidence to the contrary:
From the Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire –
Despite facing federal corruption charges, Sen. Ted Stevens managed to win more special-interest spending for his state this year than any other lawmaker, according to a new analysis released by a nonpartisan budget watchdog.
In spending bills released today, the Alaska Republican scored more than $238.5 million in earmarks, Taxpayers for Common Sense found. Among his earmarks: $2 million for Hibernation Genomics, a project at the University of Alaska said to be investigating the use of hibernation as a technique to prevent and treat trauma from battlefield injuries.
Full story here
Alaska in the (geothermal) spotlight
By: Patrick Kerley
Date: July 28, 2008
Slashdot.org links us to a post at “The Future of Things” online. The story examines the recent announcement by Alaska state officials that increased exploration of geothermal energy sources is about to commence. It is great to see Alaska being talked about as the kind of energy leader utilizing a variety of energy sources as Senator Stevens has long envisioned.
The story does leave a couple things out, though. For instance, the geothermal projects already in the works. Just a couple weeks ago Senator Stevens secured, as the Alaska Journal of Commerce reported, $3 million to begin work on geothermal in Naknek as well as a host of other alternative energy grant programs and projects. Previously, Senator Stevens has helped secure funding for geothermal projects in Akutan and Dutch Harbor.
Read the full story here.
Blog Watch
By: Patrick Kerley
Date: July 24, 2008
Everyone’s favorite “Alaskan Abroad” has done a write up on Senator Stevens’ energy amendment and the road blocks being thrown up by Democratic leadership (which I covered earlier today.)
“Despite the standoff, Stevens appears to smell Democratic blood in the water and is standing firm on opening the ANWR coastal plain to development.
“‘They are not going to be around [next year] if they continue to oppose allowing us to vote on increasing domestic supply,’ Stevens said of Democrats. ‘Democrats need to get out of our way and allow us to develop our state.’”
Read more on Dillon’s blog.