Lisa Murkowski actually said...

"I'm going to talk about fish. When we talked prior to your nomination, I told you that this was my priority within the Commerce Department, and I wanted to make it your priority."

"I appreciate your statement and the reassurance that we're not going to see a downgrade in these very important stock assessments."

"Now is not the time to be putting new programs onto the books, when we're effectively shortchanging the very, very important efforts."

"Okay. I would appreciate a very prompt response and would look forward to that."