Lisa Murkowski: “It's encouraging to hear from each of you, your support for the legislation.”

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

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