The Alaska Salmon Research Task Force Act
What they say
His campaign says he spearheaded the Alaska Salmon Research Task Force Act, bringing scientists, stakeholders and policymakers together to understand declining salmon runs.
“He also spearheaded the Alaska Salmon Research Task Force Act”
What the record shows ·
He sponsored the Act as S. 3429, introduced December 16, 2021; the Senate passed it and it was held at the House desk. Its text became law another way, as Title III of Division S of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, Public Law 117-328, which says the title may be cited as the Alaska Salmon Research Task Force Act. He voted Nay on that act: the Congressional Record prints him among the 29 nays on roll call 421 of December 22, 2022, the Senate's final vote on it, which carried 68 to 29.
Limit: The Act is his and its text is law, which is what “spearheaded” claims. It became law inside a year-end spending act he voted against, so his vote on the enacting bill ran the other way from the provision he wrote; a vote on an omnibus spending act is not a vote on any one title of it.