Lisa Murkowski: “There is no question, Mr. President, that we all want to see regulatory reform legislation passed by this Congress for…”

“There is no question, Mr. President, that we all want to see regulatory reform legislation passed by this Congress for two very, very important reasons. They are simply fairness and common sense. As chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, we passed out a bill that would accomplish fairness and common sense, and in so doing address corrections needed in our regulatory process. We passed a bill that was easily understood. And, as a consequence, we find ourselves immersed now in almost a legal discussion of various types of binding conditions associated with what was generally understood to be a high degree of frustration among the public, a public which was frustrated over policies of the Environmental Protection Agency such as the one that occurred in the largest city of Alaska, Anchorage, AK, where the city was notified that the water that accumulated after rains in the drains that ordinarily went out in Cook Inlet for disposal.”