Lisa Murkowski: “I think we recognize that when it comes to families and their ability to go to work, if there is not affordable…”

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.

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.

If a federal facility is going to be demolished, it cannot be without congressional oversight here.

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