Lisa Murkowski actually said...

"I am a little bit disappointed that the Army does not make broader use of this tremendous resource for training a larger number of troops to fight in our cold climates."

"I would certainly concur. You know, one of the great disappointments following the Exxon Valdez tragedy was a lot of lessons learned there."

"Let us take this conversation up north then to the Arctic. It is my understanding that in Alaska, the use of dispersants has not been preauthorized."

"We don't want to be sitting in the--if something horrible happens, we don't want to be sitting in a situation where we are held off from using a tool in the toolbox because we haven't done the backgro..."