[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 40 (Friday, April 12, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Page S2635]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       HAWAII AND ALASKA POLITICS

  Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, seeing my good friend, the Presiding 
Officer, and the distinguished whip having made the statement he made, 
I would like the Record to show that at the time the Senator from 
Hawaii was fighting for statehood for Hawaii, Hawaii was Republican. At 
the time I was fighting for statehood for Alaska, Alaska was 
Democratic. It has changed since the two of us have been here.

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