Lisa Murkowski: “Thank you, Chairwoman Cantwell, for holding this important hearing and for allowing me to submit my written statement to…”

Where there’s opportunities to put certain guardrails in our spending bills — there are tools, there are mechanisms — we have to be diligent to it.

Kyle brings extensive knowledge of both our state and our court system to the federal bench, having served the District of Alaska as a federal prosecutor and U.S. Magistrate Judge, a position he has held in Alaska for the past five years.

His extensive experience, professionalism, and judicial temperament make him exceptionally well-qualified for this role.

I join Alaskans in offering condolences as we learn of the plane crash in Cape Newenham.