Lisa Murkowski: “I have asked every cabinet secretary as I've had an opportunity in these appropriations hearings.”

This is an individual that is not only qualified for this position, he is ready to hit the ground running as a U.S. District Court judge.

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.

Congress needs to save ourselves.

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