Lisa Murkowski actually said...

There is no cure, there is no treatment for ALS, and it is a horrible, horrible disease for an individual to live with.

This lack of data had previously justified the local FAA to allow carriers to use a combination of inputs to satisfy the requirements.

The FAA is now changing that standard, enforcing a national standard for weather reporting and weather forecasting.

The FAA has not funded a new automated weather observing system location program in Alaska since the 1990s.