Lisa Murkowski: “I think there is opportunity and promise, but we still are talking an awful lot about how we build the capacity.”

If a federal facility is going to be demolished, it cannot be without congressional oversight here.

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.

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.

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