03/09/2010
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"Senator Murkowski has been a vocal advocate of cleaning up NPRA from damages inflicted by the Federal Government over the last 60 plus years and it's finally happening."
"The Federal Government has made commercial production all but impossible in the offshore Arctic."
"At the same time federal agencies have generally become less cooperative, less willing to work with us to get to 'yes,' and instead start and stay at 'no.'"
"Tens of millions of acres of our lands and waters have been unilaterally withdrawn in recent years, against our strongest objections, and in my view, oftentimes in violation of the law."