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    Mary Peltola on her support for S.5087, a bill to amend the Not Invisible Act of 2019 Recorded December 21, 2022. Mary Sattler Peltola[1][b] (born August 31, 1973) is an American politician and former tribal judge serving as the U.S. representative from Alaska's at-large congressional district since September 2022.

  2. Sep 5, 2022 · The daughter of a Yu'pik mom and a dad from Nebraska, Peltola defeated Sarah Palin in a special election. She'll be the first Democrat to represent Alaska in the U.S. House in 50 years.

  3. Rep. Mary Sattler Peltola was born in Alaska and raised on the Kuskokwim River in Kwethluk, Tuntutuliak, Platinum, and Bethel. She was just six years old when she began fishing commercially with her father. At age 24 years old she won her first state election and represented the Bethel region in the Alaska State Legislature. During her ten ...

    • Who Is Mary Peltola?
    • Peltola's Political Beliefs
    • Alaska Special Election Results
    • Relationship with Palin and Begich

    Mary Sattler Peltola, a Yup'ik, was born in Anchorage, Alaska. Peltola, 49, went to the University of Northern Colorado and the University of Alaska. She established the lobbying firm Sattler Strategies. She served as the executive director of the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, and a councilwoman in Bethel, a small city in Alaska, fr...

    Peltola is pro-abortion rights and said she believes the government should not interfere when it comes to abortion. "My opinion is that the way people build their family is entirely up to them, and the government shouldn't have any say in that," Peltola told USA TODAY in a phone interview. While she said that guns are part of Alaskan culture, she s...

    Ranked choice tabulations took place Wednesday after no candidate won more than 50% of the first choice votes, with state elections officials live-streaming the event. Peltola was in the lead heading into the tabulations, followed by Palin and then Begich. While won the special election, the three candidates will face each other again in November f...

    Peltola said she respects both of her opponents and said that the campaigns have been civil. Peltola described her relationship with Palin as "very well." The two women worked together in the state legislature and were both pregnant at the same time, which gave them the opportunity to bond. She also said she respects Beigch but believes she is the ...

  4. Meet Mary. Mary Sattler Peltola was sworn into the 117th Congress September 13, 2022. As the first Alaska native woman elected to Congress, she served the remainder of the late Rep. Don Young's term and was re-elected to a full term in the 118th Congress on November 8, 2022.

  5. Nov 8, 2022 · Biography. Mary Peltola was born in Alaska. Peltola's career experience includes working as the interim executive director of the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, a lobbyist with Sattler Strategies, and the manager of community development and sustainability with Donlin Gold.

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  7. Aug 17, 2022 · Ms. Peltola took 38 percent of the vote in the special election to fill the House seat through January. She is ahead of two top Republicans: Ms. Palin, the state’s former governor and Senator ...

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