Lisa Murkowski actually said...

"I would like to restart those types of meetings with your folks, and I would like your commitment to that today."

"When I look at the budgets not only within Interior, but the other subcommittees, I am always looking to see where have we, as an Arctic nation, placed the priority, the funding priority, in our budge..."

"I think the sooner we get people in place and brought up to speed on many of these areas, where, again, I look at them as parochial, but for our fishermen, for our miners, for the people that live in ..."

"I think it is probably in our best interest to know so we can make a decision either way."