Lisa Murkowski actually said...

"the United States may be 40 years behind... depending on how you are talking to."

"I think we are beyond the time to be doing plans, and quite honestly I am not really interested in more studies."

"Some would suggest that we are just so far behind on this that we have no excuses."

"all anybody wanted to talk about was Russia's arctic push, and what were we going to do in that regard."