Lisa Murkowski actually said...

"Well, I am glad that you have raised that. I can't tell you the number of people who have said to me, you know, I am driving down the highway to go down to the Kenai, and it is just all this dead stan..."

"It was extraordinary to me to see the level of interest from Alaskans all over the state, who flew into Anchorage to hear just exactly what the details are on some of these grants."

"what I am hearing on the ground is that BLM has done everything that they need to do."

"A large percentage of these contaminated lands, as you know, have not yet been cleaned up, and the Federal government, for too long, has not shown any real willingness or interest to accept the respon..."