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Bill calls for spending $45 billion over 15 years to conserve lands

...particularly since it's being championed by a staunch ally in the property rights debate -- Resources Committee Chairman Don Young, R-Alaska. Young, who was instrumental in crafting the Conservation and Reinvestment Act, calls the property rights...

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House vote on aviation security bill goes down to the wire

...move supervision of aviation security from the Transportation Department to Justice. Transportation Committee Chairman Don Young, R-Alaska, predicted that putting thousands of people on the federal payroll would do little to improve airport security...

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Aviation security deal reached

...airports and airplanes more secure. "I think we have an agreement," the House Transportation Committee chairman, Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, said after an hourlong meeting of five negotiators from each chamber. Young and others declined to discuss...

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Oberstar seeks hike in federal gas tax for highway work

...but others in the House say that's unlikely with gas prices at near-record highs. Transportation Committee Chairman Don Young, R-Alaska, and top Democratic member James Oberstar of Minnesota say they need $375 billion over the next six years...

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Kennedy proposing toll lanes in lieu of gas tax hike, declines to comment on possible Senate run

...delegation. Oberstar, the ranking Democrat on the House Transportation Committee, and the committee chairman, Republican Don Young of Alaska, are supporting a six-year, $375 billion highway bill. Raising the gas tax is one several options the...

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Raising a squawk

...citizen-based waterfowl management committees" whose sole purpose would be to aid the recovery of duck habitat. Don Young, executive president of Ducks Unlimited, came all the way from Memphis to announce that DU has pledged $30 million...

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The new Congress

...Armed Services committee; Henry Hyde of Illinois, who goes from Judiciary to International Relations; and Alaska's Don Young, who transfers from Resources to Transportation. In the Senate, Republican leader Trent Lott of Mississippi and top...

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San Francisco Bay area may offer gambling

...Committee, and a handful of Republican and Democratic colleagues were aware of the provision before it passed. Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, who was the committee's chairman last year, "sees it as a California issue so he's going to defer...

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Transportation officials, industry try to speed construction projects

...extremely difficult in some cases to get badly needed infrastructure online to serve the American public," said Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, chairman of the House Transportation Committee, which held four days of hearings on the issue in May...

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Duck numbers down in key breeding areas

...flight to last year, which was good. But as always, weather will be the main factor guiding the fall migration." Don Young, Executive Vice President of DU, says that waterfowl populations naturally fluctuate, so this dip in numbers should...

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