{"id":21938,"date":"2016-09-27T21:05:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T04:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/alaskas-congressional-delegation-supports-new-native-tourism-bill\/"},"modified":"2016-09-27T21:05:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T04:05:31","slug":"alaskas-congressional-delegation-supports-new-native-tourism-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaskas-congressional-delegation-supports-new-native-tourism-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska&#8217;s Congressional delegation supports new Native tourism bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, President Barack Obama signed into law a piece of legislation that requires federal agencies to include tribes and Native organizations when those federal agencies plan tourism programs.<\/p>\n<p>The idea behind the bill, a bipartisan measure introduced by a Democratic U.S. Senator from Hawaii and a Republican U.S. Senator from North Dakota, is to boost cultural tourism nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The measure was supported by all three members of Alaska\u2019s Congressional delegation.<\/p>\n<p>In a prepared statement, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska; Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska; and Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska; said the measure will help Alaska diversify its economy by improving cultural tourism opportunities in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, President Barack Obama signed into law a piece of legislation that requires federal agencies to include tribes and Native organizations when those federal agencies plan tourism programs. The idea behind the bill, a bipartisan measure introduced by a Democratic U.S. Senator from Hawaii and a Republican U.S. Senator from North Dakota, is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[65],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-21938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-nation-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21938"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}