Political Quotes

“Mr. President, thank you for passing that very important piece of legislation. The official name of that legislation that just passed the Senate is the Alaska Tourism Restoration Act. This is a really good day for Alaska right now and for our small businesses and working families and the overall economy in Alaska, across our State. I want to say this is also a good day for the Congress. Both Houses, over the last week, have been able to come together, Members on both sides of the aisle, when they recognized that a relatively narrow segment of this great Nation--my State, Senator Murkowski's State--had a huge challenge right now with our economy relating to tourism. Senators and Members of the House worked together, and we just passed a piece of legislation that is going to the President's desk. It is really going to help. This pandemic has really hurt a lot of our economies in different States. I would say the Alaskan economy has been really hammered--the energy sector, the commercial fishing sector, and, of course, our tourism sector. But we have hope. As I mentioned, we just passed the Alaska Tourism Restoration Act.…”