JUNEAU — Gas, guns and oil taxes are among the highlights on this week’s legislative agenda. Here are three things to watch for:
Guns
The House and Senate Judiciary committees are set to take up resolutions aimed at the executive actions on guns taken by President Barack Obama last month. HJR4, by Rep. Charisse Millett, R-Anchorage, urges Obama to rescind his orders and Congress to not pass legislation restricting gun ownership rights. SJR6, by Sen. Fred Dyson, R-Eagle River, urges Congress to not relinquish to the president the legislative duty “to safeguard our most fundamental right.”
Following a deadly shooting at a school in Connecticut in December, Obama announced 23 executive actions aimed at reducing gun violence, including launching a national dialogue on mental health, calling for a campaign on responsible gun ownership and addressing issues related to background checks. His actions have been referred to as executive orders, a term of art for a document the president signs. The White House says they’re more correctly referred to as executive actions.
On Wednesday, along with HJR4, House Judiciary is set to hear HB24, which would allow for use of deadly force in self-defense, in any place the person has a right to be. Rep. Mark Neuman, R-Big Lake, has tried for years, without success, to get the bill passed. Debate over his proposal last year came amid controversy over “Stand Your Ground” laws following the deadly shooting of a Florida teenager.
Gas
House Resources is scheduled to hold its first hearing Monday on HB4, a measure Reps. Mike Hawker, R-Anchorage, and Mike Chenault, R-Nikiski, aimed at advancing an in-state natural gas pipeline project. The bill is a priority for Chenault, Alaska’s House speaker, who has said the in-state project looks to be the only pipeline project moving forward in Alaska. A different version of the bill died last year in the Senate, where concerns were raised about the power that would have been given to the group behind the project, the cost and what customers would pay.
Oil taxes
Industry representatives have been invited to testify Tuesday before a special Senate committee on the oil flow through the trans-Alaska pipeline. Committee co-chair Peter Micciche, R-Soldotna, has said he hopes to advance the measure by Thursday, sending it on to Senate Resources for further review, but his committee has issued public notice for a Saturday meeting, in case that target isn’t met.
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Add commentGuns
Shannyn Moore over at ADN highlights an interesting statistic: "Women killed by intimate partners in states that require background checks for all handgun sales is 38 percent lower than in states that don't require them. You may think: well, they must make up for it with all the hammer deaths, but the non-firearm rates of women killed by intimate partners is nearly identical in both sets of states."
If Sean Parnell was sincerely interested in reducing threats of violence against women, beyond touching photo ops with high school basketball teams and clever sound bites, he'd propose the same thing in Alaska. And start holding your breath...now!
Big Oil is predicted ....
Big Oil will say something to the effect .... lowering our taxes will increase the likelihood of more investment in the state ....
You get the idea. Just give us the money and maybe we'll do something.
No promises and nothing specific forthcoming from Big Oil.
Oil
"Committee co-chair Peter Micciche, R-Soldotna, has said he hopes to advance the measure by Thursday"
This is the same Peter Micciche who has worked for Conoco Phillips for over two decades, making upwards of $200,000 per year. WHY ON EARTH would he be in charge of oil tax legislation???
Can you possibly find a clearer conflict of interest? This is where the citizens of Alaska should be storming the Capitol with torches and pitchforks. I thought we rooted out this type of corruption a decade ago.
Maybe you're a republican. Maybe you believe the governor's story that his giveaway will result in more exploration and production. Fine. But are you so invested in that support that you're comfortable with the oil industry actually writing their own laws? Because that's what's happening at this very moment. Wake. Up.
We as alaskan are ok with
We as alaskan are ok with that lat, remember, he was elected by Alaskans that knew his background. Can't really consider it shady when its all out there.
Heres something for ya!!
Here is something for ya,an AMERCAN PATRIOT
No bones about it!!
Originally Posted By rangermonroe:
I have lived a good life. I have gotten to meet my children; many more than I expected to have when I voluntarily placed my life on the line for this country when faced with the Evil Empire. I did not expect to see the end of my enlistment.
Now, some 20 years later, I have gotten the chance to teach my kids to walk, wipe their own ass, and ride a bike. Several of them are very good shots and amateur gun hacks. Three can, and do, reloaded ammo in bulk.
While I hope to grow old and die in my sleep after a wild night with the wife, I am content dying cold and tired in a ditch to give my children the chance to die old and in their bed.
I have lived long enough. I have watched this cancer spread consuming Liberty and encroaching upon the little freedoms that I took for granted as a youth. I worry that my kids will not live in the America that grew me into the man I am today, but one which smothers them with the cloak of well meaning government which serves it's own ends... the servant who wishes to be master.
Should my blood need to spill, should my life be forfeit to help turn the tide, than so be it. I have lived well and long, and if my blood needs to help to refresh the Tree, it will be blood well spilled and a life well done.
and another!
A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY TO THINK ABOUT.......December 29, 2012 marks the 122nd Anniversary of the murder of 297 Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. These 297 people, in their winter camp, were murdered by federal agents and members of the 7th Cavalry who had come to confiscate their firearms “for their own safety and protection”. The slaughter began after the majority of the Sioux had peacefully turned in their firearms. The Calvary began shooting, and managed to wipe out the entire camp. 200 of the 297 victims were women and children. About 40 members of the 7th Cavalry were killed, but over half of them were victims of fratricide from the Hotchkiss guns of their overzealous comrades-in-arms. Twenty members of the 7th Cavalry's death squad, were deemed “National Heroes” and were awarded the Medal of Honor for their acts of [cowardice] heroism.
We hear very little of Wounded Knee today. It is usually not mentioned in our history classes or books. What little that does exist about Wounded Knee is normally a sanitized “Official Government Explanation”. And there are several historically inaccurate depictions of the events leading up to the massacre, which appear in movie scripts and are not the least bit representative of the actual events that took place that day.
Wounded Knee was among the first federally backed gun confiscation attempts in United States history. It ended in the senseless murder of 297 people
It's gotten pretty bad,
when you have to read out of town newspapers, to find out what is being kept from our view. If I want to know what Parnell and his minions are up to, I read papers from elsewhere in the state.
At least they are up to speed on the CBC's activities......and REPORT the news.....good or bad!
@lawrence
Calling Wounded Knee about gun rights is like saying any battle in a war is about disarmament.
Wounded Knee was a massacre of prisoners of war and noncombatants.
I am glad you are using this as an example, btw. Because you clearly indicate that you will shoot any of the US armed forces that, in this fever dream fantasy of yours, come to take your guns.
Support the US Constitution
For your information it appears that you choose to be a sheeple,If the Govmnt does not support the U.S.Constitution then it is apparent that you are againts the alleged oath taken to support the U.S.Constitution from foreign and domestic enemies.
Then you also have the factor all U.S. sevicemen are not required to follow an unlawfull order,now does that come as a surprise to you,probubly not as it appears that you have absolutly no understanding of the American Constitution as it had been written.
Then we in America have an issue with Prgressives that think the Constitution is out of date ,well guess what use the required protocalls to change said document or just plai STFU.!!
Support the US Constitution +1
lawrence a love +1
and to El Booba, YES, I would SHOOT, ANYONE who comes to "Confiscate my Weapons", just like I would Shoot ANYONE who Threatens my Family. My Second Amendment Rights are NOT given to "Me" by the Federal Government. They are God Given Rights, I enjoy by the Grace of The Maker. You may choose a different Path, which is YOUR RIGHT. HOWEVER, When you try and tell "Me", YOUR Interpretation, of My Rights, that are in Total conflict with SCOTUS Rulings, in Heller & McDonald, then you cross the line, about what your Rights, under our Constitution, ARE.... My Belief... YMMV....
HB24 is a terrible bill
Every single trigger happy, shoot first idiot out there is going to kill someone and get away with it by claiming self defense.
BTPost
You are a PERFECT EXAMPLE of why we need STRICTER gun measures. You're WILLINGNESS to shoot ANYONE is terrible and you NEED to reevaulate your stance.
And if you BELIEVE that the CONSTITUTION is God-given rights, then you BELIEVE that GOD said that it is ok to PRACTICE ANY RELIGION, as written in the FIRST AMMENDAMENT. But, as im sure you know, the BIBLE says that there is ONLY ONE WAY to get to HEAVEN.
Only Ones that believe in "SuperHeros"
Funny, that has NOT proven to be the case in every other State that has enacted Castle Doctrines. Look it up.
New York is calling you... SuperHero....
New York is calling you... SuperHero.... They need you to move there, where they have "Sensible Gun Control Laws'
...NOT.... Don't let the Door hit you in the _____ (fill in your own body part) on your way out of town......
you mean New York..
The land that does not have any neighboring cities/states with loose gun laws? The state where they have huge walls, such as the Great Wall of China, so that there could not be any possible way for a gun to enter?
BTPost, reality is calling you. It wants you to wake up from your fantasy world.
roughcut
Care to further explain your statement? It doesnt really make sense.
Also
If a criminal enters your home and threatens you and your family, by all means, shoot them. I know I would. But HB24 is allowing people who conceal carry to pull the trigger based on a hunch.
@btpost
Nobody has proposed taking guns away from anyone except felons and insane people.
The only place that idea exists is in the fever dreams of people like you.
2nd Amendment...
Now consider this:
http://voxvocispublicus.homestead.com/Battle-of-Athens.html
You decide. You be the Judge.
when did the guvment
suggest banning firearms? I always hear about the "guvment" taking away my right to bear arms but if "stricter gun regulations" equals "2nd amendment violation" then consider it done... and in case you haven't consulted a history book in a while, it started 75 years ago with the Federal Firearms Act of 1938.
So how bout we change the station? Introduce a little reason into the gun restriction debate. Otherwise the discussion goes something like this:
"Let's restrict the capability of certain firearms."
"BAAAGGGHHHHHH, second amendment!!! BAAGGGHHHH UNCONSTITUTIONAL BAAGHHHH!!! SPLLFFTTSSS"
Really?
"My Second Amendment Rights are NOT given to "Me" by the Federal Government. They are God Given Rights, I enjoy by the Grace of The Maker."
God wrote the second amendment and the US Constitution?
My dictionary
Looking at the previous comments, I decided to consult my Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary regarding a term I ran across in my graduate studies in psychology, and met in real life as a counselor years ago.
Paranoia: The tendency on the part of an individual or group towards excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustrufulness of others.
I don't think that I am paranoid. I do own a vehicle that is registered, I have license to drive that vehicle, I know that I must follow the laws and regulations of the city, State and nation while using it. However, I don't think the Army, Navy, Marines, National Guard are some day going to come and take my vehicle because it has been registered and I have had to undergo a background check.
I can't seem to find the definition of "non-paranoid" ??
Ask those Gun Owners in New York State what they think....
Ask those Gun Owners in New York State what they think.... About the NEW Statue, that goes into effect in March, about Gun CONFISCATION? The UpState Gun Owners are VERY Upset, concerning their Rights, being trampled by their State Legislators. They are voicing their RESENTMENT to the NEW Statute in LARGE Numbers. So tell us all again how the Blue States are not going to try and CONFISCATE, their Legally OWNED, FireArms. Best you should go and READ the Statute. If you think this is a GOOD Statute, then you should MOVE to New York, and enjoy your life, and leave the rest of us to live HOW WE CHOSE.
WMOLSON/cheesepoof
all those items are and will always be PRIVALEGE therefor it is not a right.
Then we get to your friend cheesypoof/Yea that 1938 law was and has been challnged numerous time,the anti gun lobby has continuosly been after the 2nd ever since;the other concept you should look into is the challenge that brought on the change in 1938/that one was in 1932---read it and it was an interesting iten(dont remember where)but all you experts out there are welcome to find it.
The 1968 gun control act was another restriction on our firearms rights that for some reason:-) :-)---was enacted without any real challenge by the so called adults in the room.
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So lets see ya chew on that for a while.
An intellectual
Go figure you types always know what is best for all,and nobody has a say in it.Looks like Obama is doing you a favor eh!!!
The Constitution was set up so a very few powerful intellectuals could not be able to control the masses with their know better than you attitude.
This is why there are so many obsticles to get any type of change.
It is a crying shame that the corruption that is going on in our country is still being ignored as oh well we cannot do anything about it,uh yea right pussification of a country.
new york statute
"The Siena College poll shows 65 percent support statewide for the more restrictive gun law, including 82 percent in New York City and 61 percent in its suburbs, including Long Island. Half of the upstate respondents supported the new law, with 55 percent opposition in the 14 counties of the Southern Tier."
The law bans certain semi-automatic guns and large magazines, requires owners to register within a year any once-legal guns banned under the law’s tighter definition of “assault weapons” and outlaws bringing them into New York from elsewhere.
It also institutes mandatory background checks for ammunition purchases, tries to keep guns out of the hands of mentally ill people who may be a threat to themselves or others and increases prison penalties for gun crimes.
65% support statewide. And there is no "gun confiscation" involved so I have a hard time acknowledging your comments in general when you introduce such ignorant lies.
lawrence, most of us respect the boards by proofreading before posting. Please show us the same level of respect. It would take far too long to chew on your brainfart of a post so I won't bother. You can edit it and I'd be willing to take a look at it but as is, it's not worth anyone's time.
poor poor cheesepoof
hA HA HA you funny boy///
just goes to show ya more intellectual a$$hats HA HA HA !!!
Uh and by the way the so called changes in the gun control act is deffinatly aimed at removing firearms from society.
When and if the individual dies those weapons cannot be passed down to their children,required to be turned in to the state or federal govmnt for destruction.
What are you people blind and cannot see the writing on the wall,little here little there and all gone.
rant on intellectual!!
lawrence a love
I enjoy reading your comments. I find it interesting how your thinking jumps from looking at some change in gun laws to a sweeping generalization that "changes in the gun control act is definitely aimed at removing firearms from society."
If one were to look at that from the point of view of logic, critical thinking and reasoning, it is amazing how your thoughts disregard all accepted logic.
Also, if people don't agree with you, you toss them aside as some kind of evil folk, as "intellectuals." In my life experience, in reading, research and even in a few personal encounters with some people, I have found have much greater insights into things, have much more knowledge than I have, beat me playing chess, speak three or more languages, and have had everyday life experiences that I have never had. I have benefited in life, I think, by not just admiring them, but learning from them. If someone is my superior physically, intellectually, in their accomplishments, what they have done for others, rather than attack them, I have found that personally I benefit from learning from them.
ha ha
The Dick Act of 1902 - Gun Control My A$$
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Pay Attention !!
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