Lisa Murkowski

I think the sooner we get people in place and brought up to speed on many of these areas, where, again, I look at them as parochial, but for our fishermen, for our miners, for the people that live in these remote areas and are raising…

I am pleased that the administration is reexamining the regulation and hopefully going to be coming up with a more sensible proposal.

This proposal would not provide the resources needed for the health and wellbeing of American Indians and Alaska Natives.

I cannot stand down knowing that our system is failing so many of our Native people around the country.

The experience is people are dying in these facilities.

It is disheartening to see this administration put forward a budget that would force entire Tribal communities to fully return to a cruel system of healthcare rationing.

This is not acceptable.

When can we expect some movement here?

I have been consistently neutral on potential development in the area, but I've supported the idea that the Pebble Limited Partnership should be allowed to apply for a Clean Water permit from the Corps before the EPA preemptively acts to…

I have outlined some of the perhaps more unique issues in the State, and that really kind of begs the question of where we are with getting regional administrator positions filled.

We need to get to a situation where we're able to resolve this issue, not be in conflict with the Clean Air Act.

Fairbanks was fortunate. They wrote a very strong application last year under the Targeted Airshed Program Grants. They got a $2.5 million grant to do a woodstove changeout.

I think what's important with respect to this issue is the lack of clarity that the previous rule, the 2015 rule, created.

I come from a State where we talk about the fact that we see our climate that has changed...

Dear Chairman Murkowski and Ranking Member Udall:

We thank Congress so much for the $11 million for Tribal health clinic leases in the fiscal year 2017 Consolidated Appropriations bill.

I look forward to continuing our work together as a subcommittee and to continued cooperation on a bipartisan basis.

I particularly appreciate the imperative that you seem to be bringing to the Agency that delays in decisionmaking that go on for years do not benefit anyone.

You have regulations that people cannot comply with because the technology isn't there or because of unusual circumstances.

What I've learned around here is that 'imminent' is a very vague term.

You're going to hear a lot of questions I think this morning about prioritization and the fact that a budget that comes out is effectively a prioritization of what is important.

I would like to restart those types of meetings with your folks, and I would like your commitment to that today.

I hope troops are coming too.

I would ask if you can commit to having a reasonable comment period of 90 days so that everyone in the region really has an opportunity to weigh in and participate if they choose to do so.

So that will be published----