Rep. Mary Peltola has pledged to carry on the legacy of her predecessor, Don Young, and in many ways, she is following in his footsteps. But their approach to quarrels in committee rooms could not be more different.
Alaska’s lone member of the U.S. House says that so far, she’s seen too much inflammatory rhetoric and too little action.
Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., proposed reinstating a rule barring members from bringing firearms to the committee room. Peltola said she chose to leave the room when someone – she didn’t name names, but it was Boebert – put up a big poster board of Huffman wearing a tinfoil hat. Peltola is not saying how she would have voted on a gun ban for the Resources Committee, because she said it was not a legitimate effort.Guns are a tricky area for her. She owns them, grew up with them and says they are a core tool of Alaska subsistence lifestyle. Still, she supports things like secure storage laws and waiting periods and universal background checks for firearm purchases, which doesn’t pass muster with the gun lobby.
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