[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 4510]
[From the U.S. 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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