Lisa Murkowski: “It has been over 5 years since we have done a hearing on the IHS budget, so this hearing is long overdue.”

Congress needs to save ourselves.

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

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.