Lisa Murkowski actually said...

"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."

"Thank you, for all the work that you did and given us the money to do this type of work."

"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..."

"So there's some buzz out there that this may be a situation where Cook Inlet was just one example."