Lisa Murkowski

It is important that the U.S. continue to fund this work and uphold and honor its trust obligations to Tribes.

We understand our Nation's challenging fiscal constraints, but cutting funding to programs that are economic drivers and job creators in local communities only exacerbates an already difficult situation.

We appreciate the opportunity to offer comments on the fiscal year 2019 Interior Appropriations bill and respectfully request:

Dear Chair Murkowski and Ranking Member Udall:

We thank her for her steadfast determination in advocating for these small chronically underfunded remote clinics.

Please reject for fiscal year 2019 (as you did for fiscal year 2018) the President's proposal to terminate this low-cost Program which is so vital to national security and protection of our electric power grid.

Energy efficiency is our country's greatest energy resource--creating jobs, stimulating economic activity, enhancing energy security, lowering harmful emissions, and improving U.S. competitiveness in global markets.

Dear Chairwoman Murkowski and Ranking Member Udall;

We have to look at it from all directions.

While we are getting more treatment beds, our reality is we have eight detox beds in the state for opioids.

We will look forward to working with you, Mr. Walker, in this capacity here with a very keen focus on cyber.

I think that's an excellent question and being part of the decision-making for doing this, I'd like to answer this.

The energy sector is clearly a high value target for cyberattacks.

Acts of cyber intrusion such as these can jeopardize diplomatic relations and could have more serious repercussions.

These attacks are across-the-board and not limited, of course, to energy infrastructure.

Cyberattacks are a well-documented and continuing threat.

You might convince me to do it online to save you money.

I do think that this is, again, one of these examples where we need to make sure that we are reaching people the way that they can be reached;

I received the American Community Survey. I was randomly chosen. I was told that my response is required by law.

There is almost nothing more important to our small communities than Federal funding.

We all know that folks are prepared to work hard as we move towards the actual count, but you can only do as much as you can possibly do; and recognizing not only the human resource, but the resource behind the count is very important…

Getting a complete census and accurate count is truly important.

I have insisted--and I have spoken recently with the head of the FDA, that if, in fact, the FDA is going to continue down, what I believe is, a wrong-headed approach--at a bare, bare minimum these species should be labeled as genetically…

Do they not understand that you have animals, and you have humans?

But effectively what we are talking about is the first ever--the first ever--genetically engineered species of animal that is approved for human consumption.