Lisa Murkowski: “Is this something that you will commit to me and to our Alaska Native villages, not just the Alaska Native villages, but…”

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

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

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.

Alaska is a cornerstone of American defense; investments like this from the Coast Guard are critical as we work to improve infrastructure on bases across the state to maintain our national security.