It's important for all of us to work together to understand your thinking.

Please pass on from this Committee and the rest of the Senate the appreciation that we all have for the great job that the men and women of the Coast Guard are doing for our country.

I think we have an important role to play.

Was that an alternative for you that day?

one disappointment in the NDAA conference report is that it authorizes the procurement of one new icebreaker

What's it like to get in a boat when the wind is gusting at 70 miles an hour?

Well, listen, I want to thank all the witnesses again for your testimony, for flying here to Washington to present on really, as Senator Peters mentioned, just--these are important anecdotes, more broadly speaking, of the daily heroism…

I think it's very unconvincing that there are, from your testimony.

an 11-mile gravel road is denied time and time again, most callously by Sally Jewell the latest time, where they put the lives of birds above the lives of people

So her notion in 2013 that there was an alternative is not accurate?

I don't think the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States should be deploying on such old and decrepit icebreakers

That can bring literally hundreds of American citizens peace of mind that most Americans wake up, and when they see 70-mile-an-hour winds, don't have--their first thought doesn't--being, 'Oh, my goodness, I hope my son doesn't break his…

Well, the notion that there are no roads in the refuge is completely false.

I think you see Senator Peters and I were highly motivated to get the Coast Guard authorization bill voted on.

you can't put a dollar sign on a life, whether it's a life of an Alaskan resident in King Cove

No community, no community, in America should be deprived access to necessary emergency care, and Senators from the lower 48 would have howled at something this outrageous.

I thank Senator Rounds, and I appreciate all my colleagues coming down to the floor. A lot of my colleagues are from the class of 2014. Mr. President, there has been a theme in this colloquy. We have been talking about economic growth and…

I think this exchange underscores the need for a joint hearing between this Committee and the Seapower Subcommittee.

I'm looking for a 5 percent increase.

Senator Sullivan's S. 1934, the Alaska Remote Generator Reliability and Protection Act, will ensure that remote communities will have access to reliable power.

This bill is narrowly focused to provide a minor exemption from New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for compression ignition internal combustion engines used to power and heat remote Alaska villages.

Rural Alaskans and Alaska natives face environmental, energy, and survival challenges that are unique in the United States.

I have 5 requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following…

as you know, I have been coming to the Senate floor pretty much every week for month after month to highlight someone in my State whom we call the Alaskan of the Week. It is someone who does something important, either for their community…

To be perfectly blunt, I think the last Administrator in the previous Administration was not that concerned about the rule of law.