Lisa Murkowski

Everyone who fought and endured the 2014 Funny River Fire which consumed 156,000 acres knows that far too well.

Senator Collins and every member of this body know that I support fair housing. It is so important for my State, where there is a lack of affordable housing, and the Anchorage School District is one of the most diverse in the Nation…

We obviously oppose any new drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf. We think it's incompatible with coastal businesses and coastal ecosystems.

The President has acknowledged that if we're serious about fighting climate change two thirds of the fossil fuels need to stay under the ground where they are now.

We think that new offshore oil and drilling or offshore oil and gas drilling would keep the U.S. dependent on fossil fuels and harm our fight against climate change.

By choosing not to produce here, we are telling other countries, some of them rather nefarious, that we would rather buy from them.

The Department's treatment of the Alaska OCS is also extremely frustrating.

I am disappointed by the proposed five-year program for 2017 through 2022.

I find that unacceptable.

We need to look at new jurisdictional definitions or some other remedy to include Alaska villages.

It's time to explore different avenues to address the public safety issues and empower tribes to protect their communities.

I am tremendously invested in the success of both of these significant legislative accomplishments.

That is where the huge frustration is. You have villages that simply lack any law enforcement presence.

We have this special domestic violence jurisdiction that is of very limited value to our Alaska tribes.

I think we need to be looking beyond the world as we know it or as it is structured today.

I cannot imagine how adding some extra dollars there actually equals supplement when the scale is so tipped.

The problem wasn't money, because each rural district got about the same per pupil, but what they were seeing, again, were very different outcomes.

We are not talking about one approach, one technology. There is a diversity now that I think we recognize.

I think that is the approach, Madam Chairman, we should take with any of these new technologies where they are promising we should invest heavily in research, perhaps even support jump-starting a new technology like advanced reactors or…

If you take the length of time the plants might last and the importance of diversity in a big utility like yours, it does make sense to go with nuclear power.

The current operating fleet faces a number of challenges due to political decisions.

The opportunity for innovation in nuclear technologies has not been this great since the 1960's.

Nuclear has to remain part of the energy mix.

Nuclear energy must be a national priority. It provides about 20 percent of our nation's electricity.

Solely on the basis of integrity and demonstrated ability and without regard to political affiliation.