Lisa Murkowski actually said...

I have long advocated for our country to pay greater attention to the region.

I believe the requests made in the defense spending document are inadequate to maintain serious regional competition from the United States ...

China's investments in the Arctic have gone from $150B in 2012 to over $300B today.

Right now the Arctic is not a hot spot, and I think we all would agree, we want to keep it from becoming so.