Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she and Sen. Dan Sullivan intentionally chose to rename a volcano after the late Congressman Don Young. “We looked not only at mountains, but we looked at mountains that continue to blow their top to this very day,” she said.
A 2019 photo of Rep. Don Young in his Capitol Hill office. He died in March, after 49 years in Congress.
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she knew Young’s softer side, as well as the reasons for his volatile reputation. She said she and U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan intentionally chose a volcano. Besides the mountain, the bill names a federal building in Fairbanks and a job center in Palmer after Young.
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