Lisa Murkowski

There are few commodities that are more foundational to the health of our economy than energy and minerals.

The addition that Senator Murkowski has included in the Senate 2016 Interior Appropriations bill.

Senator McCain, because Congress specified that distributions may be made as determined in article 10, section 7, of the Arizona Constitution, I share his view that Congress need not provide consent. Mr. McCAIN. I thank the Senator from…

I know that Senator Cantwell has a longer statement that she would like to make at this point in time. I yield to Senator Cantwell.

But I think it does beg the question and part of the discussion, hopefully this morning, will be with that new source of revenue that Iran is anticipated to receive, what do we do with it?

I have long argued that energy security is central to national security.

We cannot drill our way to a solution for climate change and more drilling will not protect our state from its impacts.

I support the Gwich'in people who call the coastal plain the sacred place where life begins.

Designation of the coastal plain as wilderness is long overdue.

I plan to use every day I am in office to make sure Alaska has access to our timber, to our mining and to our oil and gas development.

The deal was it was a compromise and it was supposed to be balanced, and it hasn't been.

I wear a lapel pin of Alaska with a pipe in it. And the only thing wrong with the Trans-Alaska Pipeline is that it is three quarters empty.

The law must be implemented as written not as Federal agencies wish that it was written.

What specific initiatives are focusing on what we are seeing with this heroin epidemic in Indian Country, up in Alaska?

I would be remiss if I did not take the opportunity to remind you that the Attorney General has been invited on numerous occasions to come visit the State of Alaska.

I think we need to know that going into it.

This is not a partisan, Republicans attacking the Democrat Administration.

We would like to be able to do more, but the funding has not come to us.

This is a big deal, Mr. Chairman.

The Department has represented to us that there will be public safety advantages to our villages if we see land taken into trust.

The issue of justice for our First Peoples is one that is a big deal.

I think we are somewhat unique in that, because so many of our communities are isolated, 80 percent of the communities in the State are not connected by road.

I have been trying to get funding for P.L. 280 States for our tribal courts.

The fact that we have not been able to see the reduction in the import of whether it is spice or heroin or meth, it continues to confound and disturb me that we are not doing better.

I don't think Alaska is unique in that we are seeing unprecedented amounts of heroin coming into our State.