Lisa Murkowski: “I would simply urge the subcommittee here to utilize the terminology that is founded in the law, and the regs.”

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.

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

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.

I would expect this from terrorists and dictators, but not here in America.