Senator Murkowski and I feel very strongly about working on these issues in a bipartisan way.
It seems to me you're talking about balance. I think we need to work to try to find that balance here.
What I would ask from you is that if you are confirmed, your commitment to work for a suitable solution...
We've got to get at some of these critical environmental issues. One of them is methane leakage.
Let me ask you another issue, on the Arctic operations.
What a better day to have on weather, to talk about it, where Alaska is warmer and the rest of the country is colder.
I strongly support a renewed emphasis on ensuring the necessary management policies and resources are directed toward im...
Let me ask you the issue we briefly talked about yesterday, but you mentioned close to your closing there, on the U.S. w...
I think of Georgetown, Minnesota, which is threatened every time the Red River rises and the Buffalo River overflows.
I do want to say at least in the Alaska region things are improving and we want to recognize that and give you credit fo...
a Park Service, bless your heart, and a Fish and Wildlife and a BLM have done a terrible job of management, period, and ...
there is substantial bipartisan agreement out there that the current system is not functioning.
I am suggesting going beyond that and allowing, you know, arrangements for counties and municipalities, but even going b...
Regardless of the perspective of my proposed solution, I think we can all agree that Federal management is both expensiv...
in our areas in Alaska, again, it is the management of the parks with no input from the local people, period.
Well, under my bill, I do not propose that they relinquish the ownership, but they relinquish the management.
the system is not working.
That is not the America we were built on.