What steps is the Department taking to ensure that all Federal student loan borrowers have equal access to any current or proposed new relief and benefits?

It's more important than ever to take all risks into consideration to ensure our ability to project power in this part of the world.

I understand the commitment from the Secretary to say we want to prioritize our Alaska Native Veteran allottees.

I appreciate your eyes on that and the fact that your background allows you to be intimately familiar with their mission.

We are concerned about any potential for gap because what they do and what they provide is extraordinary unique.

I am committed to meeting those time goals, the interim ones and the final time goal.

It is absolutely imperative that we not miss this deadline.

I think that's an interesting approach, recognizing that oftentimes these factors are community-based, regionally-based.

We need, again, very, very tight timelines that we are dealing with, with all of these.

The Bureau will expedite and process veterans' allotment applications across the area addressed by these orders.

we are at a much better place at this moment in time for the people of the State of Alaska, who have been anxious. We have all been anxious throughout this time of COVID, but we have been particularly anxious as we have watched our tourist…

I know of no further debate on the bill, as amended. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate on the bill? If not, the bill having been read the third time, the question is, Shall the bill pass? The bill (S. 593), as amended, was…

I ask unanimous consent that the Murkowski amendment at the desk be agreed to and the bill, as amended, be considered read a third time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The amendment (No. 1492) in the nature of…

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation be discharged from further consideration of S. 593 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the…

I would like you to hear a quote: ``You know, if you drive an electric car, this would not be affecting you, clearly.'' That was from our Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, yesterday, as she told reporters all about the cyber attacks…

it is Thursday, and it is that time of the week I come down on the Senate floor and get to do one of my favorite things of the whole week. I get to recognize the special Alaskan, someone whom we call the Alaskan of the Week. But before I…

I want to thank Senator Murkowski for her hard work. For the Alaskans who are watching, what just happened here is kind of quick but important. The U.S. Senate just passed our bill, the PVSA suspension act, that is going to give our…

We want to take good care of it, but we also do not want to be in a situation where our ability to live, to work, to raise our families is denied because we have no economic opportunity.