Lisa Murkowski actually said...

the word 'soon' has been used repeatedly for probably at least 4 months now.

As a State, as a Nation, we have an opportunity within the National Petroleum Reserve to help address some of our Nation's energy needs.

We have been waiting and waiting and waiting for resolve of this issue.

Without this funding for rural service providers, service rates for our sparsely populated remote areas I think would increase to levels tha...