Asked about her position on the debt ceiling bill, Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola said, “I’m less supportive of the actual deal and more in support of keeping our government on the rail.”
Rep. Mary Peltola on the opening day of the Alaska Federation of Natives annual conference at the Dena'ina Center in Anchorage on October 20, 2022.
If signed into law ahead of the so-called “X-date” when the U.S. would begin to default on payments — most recently Those provisions, however, have enraged environmental groups and several Democratic climate hawks in Congress.The bill changes elements of the National Environmental Policy Act by implementing a one-year deadline for environmental assessments and a two-year deadline for environmental impact statements. The bill also allows project developers to write their own environmental reviews with federal oversight, among other changes.
Peltola’s vote on the bill was aligned with other moderate House Democrats, including many from the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, of which she is a member. However, some in her party, like House Natural Resources Ranking Member Raúl Grijalva of Arizona, voted against the bill, Peltola said her fellow Democrats shared what they see as downsides to the bill in a caucus meeting Wednesday morning.
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