We must cut spending, but not. So what do you think, Nick? What's your solution here? Well, Representative Carpenter is 100% right. I mean, Alaska has been a part of [the] problem, and in order to understand how Alaska has been a part of the problem, you kind of have to roll back a quick history on what happened in Alaska. So when Anilka was passed under the Carter administration, Anelca locked up a number of really important resource lands in the state, lands in what is now Denali National park or Wrangel St. Elias National park, and some other area gates of the Arctic, etcetera. (26:42–26:54)
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