Lisa Murkowski

Well, I know we are absolutely, absolutely committed to working to reduce that seafood trade deficit as we work to promote domestic and sustainable production.

I am not going to be in a position to support any kind of a national aquaculture effort that does not take States' rights into account.

It is not Republican or Democrat, it is just trying to find the right solutions for our Native people.

The responsibility the President has asked you to take on is an extraordinary one.

I believe workforce development provides opportunities for our people.

Believe me, we need someone to take charge within the BIA.

I support Tara Sweeney's nomination wholeheartedly.

I am such an unabashed proponent of the fact this will be the first Alaska Native woman nominated to this position.

I look forward to working with my colleagues to make history by confirming the first Alaska Native person to this position.

I am committed to working very hard for Indian Country and, I would say, for Native self-determination regardless of geography.

I think it goes to the challenge, the charge that you heard from both Senators Tester and Heitkamp.

I want to extend my congratulations and of course my full support to Tara Sweeney for the position for which she has been nominated as Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the Department of Interior.

I think you can see from this Committee we are one that I think really takes our role as members of the Indian Affairs Committee very, very seriously.

Well, certainly would hope that we would have it during training as well as deployment.

Well, know that you will find me aggressively pushing on this to make sure that we do have that broader view.

We have one funded, but we need to have a plan for the additional five.

I am reluctantly coming to the impression that the Department of Defense does not have a coherent vision for addressing America's defense interests in the changing Arctic.

Russia is a strategic competitor, seeking to create a world consistent with their authoritarian models.

I would encourage the VA to begin that conversation now and to demonstrate the kind of flexibility.

I'd like to ask you--and I want to thank you, Mr. Reeves, for the comment that you have just provided about the focus on women in the military and women in the VA now, the numbers that we are seeing who are coming into a system that really…

Unfortunately, I am not sure that any of those tenets have been fully or adequately addressed.

Moving forward, I think that that is something, again, that we all agree must happen.

Again, absolutely reasonable.

I think everybody agrees it makes sense.

I suggested at that time that there are essentially three different tenets, basic tenets, for the restoration and the reconstruction of Puerto Rico's electric grid.