Lisa Murkowski: “I think we all, as policymakers, need to be careful about not only the language that we use but how we describe certain…”

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.

Congress needs to save ourselves.

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.