Sen. Lisa Murkowski rolled out legislation on Thursday to formally rename North America’s highest mountain as Denali — officially countering President Donald Trump’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, maps, regulations, documents, papers or other U.S. records.
“In Alaska, it’s Denali. … This isn’t a political issue — Alaskans from every walk of life have long been advocating for this mountain to be recognized by its true name,” Murkowski said in a statement.
