Lisa Murkowski actually said...

"We have had some issues up north there with local contractors that have expressed some very serious concern."

"Sometimes demand exceeds the capacity. Sometimes our veterans are told that they have to travel to Seattle because the procedures are not available in Alaska."

"I would like to think that that is one of those that should absolutely not be necessary for something as routine as chemotherapy treatment."

"We talked about it last year and the challenges that particularly our Alaska Native veterans face in accessing their earned healthcare benefits."