Lisa Murkowski actually said...

I am very hopeful that as a consequence of what has been shared today we will have an accelerated process to identify the priorities in a way that the State, through the AOGCC, is satisfied, that the BLM recognizes that there is an imperative, that there is an urgency to this, because from the Alaskans' perspective, this is the absolute height of hypocrisy when we hold our private operators to the highest of standards and our Federal Government can not only reject those standards but literally walk away from their level of responsibility.

07/11/2012

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