Lisa Murkowski actually said...

"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for convening today's very, very important and as you have noted, historic hearing."

"We have a responsibility to uphold the agreements made with our tribes."

"I am interested in learning more about what these treaties entailed, and the obligations of both the tribes and the Federal Government to Freedmen descendants."

"We must stand by the rights promised to Freedmen and the treaties that guaranteed those rights over a century ago."