Lisa Murkowski: “When I saw the direction that this is going, you can either say, ‘I don’t like it,’ and not try to help my state, or you…”

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.

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.

I join Alaskans in condolences as we learn of the plane crash in Cape Newenham today.

I would expect this from terrorists and dictators, but not here in America.