{"id":6123,"date":"2025-02-13T23:33:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T23:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/murkowski-introduces-bill-to-rename-mountain-denali-countering-trumps-executive-order\/"},"modified":"2025-02-13T23:33:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T23:33:57","slug":"murkowski-introduces-bill-to-rename-mountain-denali-countering-trumps-executive-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/murkowski-introduces-bill-to-rename-mountain-denali-countering-trumps-executive-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Murkowski introduces bill to rename mountain Denali \u2014 countering Trump&#8217;s executive order"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen. Lisa Murkowski rolled out legislation on Thursday to formally rename North America\u2019s highest mountain as Denali \u2014 officially countering President Donald Trump&#8217;s executive order to rename it Mount McKinley.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.murkowski.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/denali_legislation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The bill<\/a>, which fellow Republican Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan is co-sponsoring, would require the Alaska mountain to be referred to as Denali in any laws, maps, regulations, documents, papers or other U.S. records.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Alaska, it\u2019s Denali. \u2026 This isn\u2019t a political issue \u2014 Alaskans from every walk of life have long been advocating for this mountain to be recognized by its true name,\u201d Murkowski said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Lisa Murkowski rolled out legislation on Thursday to formally rename North America\u2019s highest mountain as Denali \u2014 officially countering President Donald Trump&#8217;s executive order to rename it Mount McKinley. The bill, which fellow Republican Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan is co-sponsoring, would require the Alaska mountain to be referred to as Denali in any laws, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}