03/06/2007 01:00 PM House MILITARY & VETERANS' AFFAIRS

HJR 11-STATE'S CONTROL OF NATIONAL GUARD                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
CHAIR ROSES  announced that the  only order of business  would be                                                               
HOUSE  JOINT  RESOLUTION  NO.  11,   Relating  to  the  increased                                                               
authority  granted  to the  President  of  the United  States  to                                                               
federalize the  National Guard of  the individual  states without                                                               
the  consent  of the  governors;  and  urging the  United  States                                                               
Congress  to  take  action  to restore  the  sovereignty  of  the                                                               
individual states to  regulate and command the  National Guard of                                                               
the states.                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
1:05:47 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
JOSH APPLEBEE,  Staff to Representative  Bob Roses,  Alaska State                                                               
Legislature,   on  behalf   of  Representative   Roses,  sponsor,                                                               
informed the  committee that HJR  11 is  a statement to  the U.S.                                                               
Congress and  the President  of the  United States  that declares                                                               
that State of  Alaska does not support  relinquishing the control                                                               
of  its  National Guard  to  presidential  authority.   The  John                                                               
Warner National  Defense Authorization  Act for Fiscal  Year 2007                                                               
gives the  federal government authority  over a  state's National                                                               
Guard in  times of  natural disaster,  epidemic or  other serious                                                               
public health emergency,  or terrorist attack, or  incident.  The                                                               
aforementioned  presidential authority  to  regulate and  command                                                               
the  National  Guard  was  granted without  the  consent  of  the                                                               
state's governor or  its legislature.  House  Joint Resolution 11                                                               
urges the reversal  of this action, and its  purpose is supported                                                               
by the governors of all fifty states.                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
1:07:41 PM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
REPRESENTATIVE LEDOUX  moved to  report HJR  11 out  of committee                                                               
with  individual  recommendations  and  the  accompanying  fiscal                                                               
notes.  There being no objection,  HJR 11 was reported out of the                                                               
House Special Committee on Military and Veterans' Affairs.