...trouble in the House. After passing the House Resources Committee, it landed in the World Trade and State and Federal Relations Committee, which is headed by state Rep. Ramona Barnes. Barnes, an Anchorage Republican, said she opposes the bill...

...power their own operations are not. That bill stalled in Rep. Ramona Barnes' House World Trade and State and Federal Relations Committee. Pearce insists the head tax is independent of the controversy over the spill response bill. Barnes has complained...

...no signs of life. Senate Bill 273, which had been held in Rep. Ramona Barnes' World Trade and State and Federal Relations Committee, was released Wednesday evening. ``Certainly what we have at this point I can live with,'' Barnes said...

...contingency plans for cleaning up a spill. It underwent a major revision in the House World Trade and State and Federal Relations Committee, chaired by Anchorage Republican Rep. Ramona Barnes. The bill applies to ships of 400 gross tons or larger...

...bipartisan coalition that won control of the Senate in November. Elton also serves on the World Trade and State/Federal Relations Committee. That committee is likely to be less active, but it deals with international trade issues and may draw on...

...trouble in the House. After passing the House Resources Committee, it landed in the World Trade and State and Federal Relations Committee, which is headed by state Rep. Ramona Barnes. Barnes, an Anchorage Republican, said she opposes the bill...

...he said. The bill moved out of Resources on Friday, but its next stop is the World Trade and State and Federal Relations Committee, which Barnes heads. Barnes said Saturday morning she hasn't decided whether to hold a hearing on the measure...

...prepared to respond to fuel spills. It is stalled in Rep. Ramona Barnes' House World Trade and State and Federal Relations Committee. Pearce leaned back in her chair and smiled broadly as the head tax bill moved quickly through the Senate...

...resolution Tuesday when Barnes held a hearing on the compromise version of the bill in the World Trade and State and Federal Relations Committee she chairs. Previously, she had declined to schedule a hearing on the bill, effectively burying it in her...

...a member of the bar. Powerful abbreviation Rep. Ramona Barnes chairs the House World Trade and State and Federal Relations Committee, one of the longer Capitol panel titles. So it was no surprise last week when another lawmaker garbled Barnes...