Lisa Murkowski actually said...

"This was the first time that we had been successful in including money in the program since 2008."

"There is anger. There is frustration, and rightly so, because as a government, as an agency, we are failing these people."

"What would happen is Contract Support Costs would be short-changed, short-funded, and years of litigation, lots of money spent on good lawyers to argue that case."

"I would like to think that we are not going to be going down another path with the same situation where we acknowledge that there is a Federal responsibility."