Lisa Murkowski: “I want to thank her for sounding the alarm and asking for today's hearing.”

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.

Kyle brings extensive knowledge of both our state and our court system to the federal bench, having served the District of Alaska as a federal prosecutor and U.S. Magistrate Judge, a position he has held in Alaska for the past five years.

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

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