Lisa Murkowski actually said...

"It is to operate, to build, maintain our parks. It has nothing to do with boating safety or boating licensing registrations."

"I think we would be interested in perhaps learning a little bit more as you sort through where you feel not only the most economic, but really in terms of greatest efficiencies and performance needs."

"I think the message from the Park Service needs to be one that is a genuine outreach and not just based on one incident, but a continuing outreach and a continuing collaboration."

"It sometimes takes just one incident. In this case, one that turned out to be very high profile, very public and very unfortunate."