She also got high-profile support from House leadership for her one bill that was signed into law, which establishes an office of food security in the Department of Veteran Affairs. “I definitely see the benefit of being within a legislative majority,” she told the newspaper, noting she could breathe easy when introducing legislative amendments in committees. Which sounds like a pleasant and relatively calm getaway from the political and literal storms she’s faced in Washington, D.C., and Alaska - until she recites everything else happening on this particular Sunday. House member in about 50 years, was in Sitka for the holiday weekend to visit one of her daughters and participate in the town’s Indigenous Peoples Day events. Peltola, 49, a Yup’ik mother of seven who’s risen from relative obscurity to international fame since being sworn in a month ago as Alaska’s first Democratic U.S. “When I woke up this (Sunday) morning and I was getting ready I turned on the Bethel radio station, which is how I start most days, and I thought they had a programming error where they were playing ‘Weekend Edition’ on a Monday,” she said in a phone interview from Sitka at midday. Mary Peltola admitting she’s a congresswoman who doesn’t know what day of the week it is isn’t a gaffe so much as trying to keep pace with a sudden political maelstrom where “every day is Monday now.”
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