Congress must recognize--and encourage--the development of oil resources on federal lands and on private lands.
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Murkowski emphasizes the need for Congress to support oil resource development.
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I hope you feel the urgency that I’m trying to express on behalf of the people in rural Alaska and I think in many parts of rural America where this is their lifeline.
I don’t think that somebody who has counseled other attorneys that you should ignore the law, you should reject the law — I don’t think that that individual should be placed in a lifetime seat on the bench.
It is the people of Alaska that I worry about the most, especially when it comes to the potential loss of social safety net programs—Medicaid coverage and SNAP benefits—that our most vulnerable populations rely on.
I feel like we made a deal and then hours later, a deal was made to somebody else.





