Alaska’s U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola has been assigned to the House Natural Resources Committee, a congressional cohort that advances legislation and oversees issues across a wide range of policy areas, including public lands, conservation and Native affairs.
Rep. Mary Peltola speaks in front of a ballroom at the Hotel Monaco. Alaska Federation of Natives hosted a party in honor of newly sworn-in Rep. Mary Peltola in Washington, D.C., on September 13, 2022. Peltola’s predecessor, Republican Rep. Don Young, once chaired the committee and was assigned to Natural Resources when he died in March.
The House Committee on Natural Resources is an official congressional cohort that advances legislation and oversees issues across a wide range of policy areas, including public lands, conservation and Native affairs. The committee’s jurisdiction also includes fisheries, a key policy interest of Peltola’s. Peltola is awaiting her subcommittee assignments.
Peltola requested a seat on the Natural Resources Committee and said in a statement that the committee “is where much of the legislation that is most important to Alaskans is advanced.”
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