We are on day three of the 4th special session and I wanted to remind constituents that they can follow committee meetings and download committee documents at akleg.gov by looking under the committee tab and selecting either the video or the document tab.
As you may have heard there was a data breach at Equifax, one of America’s three major credit reporting agencies.
Rep. Gara to Pre-file Legislation to Stop Political Attacks in Publicly Funded Alaska Election Pamphlet After Attack Ad Appears in 2014 Guide
Governor Parnell has had three weeks to defend a special interest provision in SB 21 that gets Alaskans either a near zero, or even negative long term Production Tax Worth under his controversial oil revenue rollback, SB 21. Rep. Les Gara wrote Governor Parnell on July 24 to ask for his defense of a zero or negative value oil tax provision. Parnell has refused to defend a provision that gets Alaskans little, or possibly a negative worth for fields that went into production under ACES, fields committed to go into production during ACES, and all post-2003 and future oil fields.
Since 2008, the legislative session has been a quick 90 days. Previously, we had 120 days to introduce, debate and finalize legislation. With such a short time of deliberation, legislation moves fast. I’ve diligently asked the hard questions about the true impacts of legislation to regular, everyday families.
