Lisa Murkowski

We will keep pushing on that.

Continue your good work, and we hope that the lessons that you are learning and the loopholes that you are exposing here continue to inform our decisions as we move forward.

We have a responsibility to ensure that the rights of Native Americans are protected.

A lot of us are concerned that the offshore regulatory system has too often held projects back.

A lot of us believe that our offshore production could and should be higher than it is today.

Offshore oil and gas production, of course, is an issue of national importance, not merely a topic for the coastal states that support it.

A chance for our country to diversify our fuel mix and break our dependence on foreign oil-and achieve energy independence from OPEC imports by 2020.

Allows appropriations to cover credit subsidy costs, but in practice applicants have largely decided to self-pay these amounts.

Ending the practice of fire borrowing so that we actually do more in prevention and preparedness up front.

I think it shows that we are serious about getting something done.

We believe that pregnant women should have access to the latest science-based nutrition advice that empowers them to make healthy nutrition decisions during pregnancy.

It is important, and it is overdue. Certainly, the science is overwhelming in its support for the recommendations.

Wouldn't that input and consideration be based on the science that went into that report?

The concern is that the FDA has revised that advice in a way that ignores this Net Effects Report.

This is one that we can fix working together.

I would ask you again to look at the issue that we have raised repeatedly before the FDA regarding the Pollock nomenclature.

The process is one that just does not work.

The Interior Department concedes that the rule would cost industry $52 million in annual compliance costs.

The coal industry estimates that between 40,000 and 78,000 direct jobs could be lost.

This proposed rule was published in the Federal Register in July. It has clearly risen to a level of controversy.

If you are an Alaskan and you are reading the headlines, you have to wonder what is going on within Interior.

I have said before this Committee that Secretary Moniz, in my opinion, is doing a good job at the Department of Energy.

I am certainly not going to forget the heartless decision that Interior made to deny King Cove an 11-mile, life-saving road.

A few weeks ago the deteriorating regulatory environment played a key role in Shell's decision to abandon seven years of work and $7 billion in investment in the offshore Arctic.

Senator Murkowski, you referenced it. I know this because I spend a lot of time working in these communities.