{"id":1248,"date":"2011-01-18T16:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T01:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2011-01-31T13:17:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T22:17:07","slug":"27th-alaska-legislature-convenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=1248","title":{"rendered":"27th Alaska Legislature Convenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Sen.-Stedman.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Sen.-Stedman1.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Sen.-Stedman2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1269\" title=\"Sen. Stedman\" src=\"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Sen.-Stedman2-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/w3.legis.state.ak.us\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">27th Alaska Legislature<\/a> convened in Juneau today.\u00a0 The ceremonies\u00a0mark the opening of a new legislature, and the opportunity to address important issues facing our state.<\/p>\n<p>During the next two years I will continue to serve as Co-Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.\u00a0 In that role, I serve as one of five members of the Senate leadership.\u00a0 Along with my Co-Chairman Senator Lyman Hoffman, I will be responsible for scheduling legislation for hearings and drafting the state budget.<\/p>\n<p>I will also serve on several committees that influence policy important to our district.\u00a0 These include the Resources Committee, Rules Committee, Legislative Council and Vice-Chair of the Legislative Budget &amp; Audit Committee.\u00a0 These positions will help me advance Southeast issues, and ensure Alaska\u2019s finances are managed prudently.\u00a0 I look forward to working with colleagues to find solutions for Alaska\u2019s energy needs, develop our natural gas resources, and further economic development in our state.<\/p>\n<p>In the coming months I will continue to be engaged on these, and other issues, to get results for Alaskans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 27th Alaska Legislature convened in Juneau today.\u00a0 The ceremonies\u00a0mark the opening of a new legislature, and the opportunity to address important issues facing our state. During the next two years I will continue to serve as Co-Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.\u00a0 In that role, I serve as one of five members of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,16],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bert-stedman","tag-finance-committee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}