Senator Murkowski and I are determined now to defy the odds and actually get this fixed.

There may be some interest in adding refining capacity to the pipeline.

I think they could.

Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member Murkowski, thank you for the opportunity to testify on behalf of Intel and the Semiconductor Industry Association on the 'Helium Stewardship Act of 2013' (S.783).

Praxair applauds the work of Chairman Ron Wyden (D-WA) and Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) to introduce this important piece of legislation.

The legislation the Chairman and I have been working on... is one that is good. It is workable.

So you think that we need to clarify with some language there?

What assurances can you give me that we're going to see some forward motion in this in a positive way?

It's good to have you before the subcommittee. This will be, of course, the first of many opportunities to sit down and work together on issues that are clearly important to our Nation, the public lands, clearly important to my State as…

The trust responsibility that the Federal Government owes to our first peoples is very important to me.

That's not acceptable.

You are Alaska's landlord, effectively.

So the question is, will that be clearly mapped out far enough in advance so that Conoco can advance in 2014, or Shell can advance in 2014?

It seems to me that the solution really here is to do what the Ramah decision laid out, which is to pay the tribes the full amount of their contract support costs.

I guess I need to hear from you that you would agree that it's not the State of Alaska's responsibility to clean up the Federal Government's mess.

I sense a strong commitment to safe and responsible development of the Arctic by the operators and by the regulators.

the outcry from tribes from folks back home on this particular issue is really loud.

I worked with Secretary Salazar on the agreement involving the King Cove road reflected in the Secretary's memorandum of March 21.