Lisa Murkowski

We have a serious, long-lasting, and consequential drought.

40 years is a long time. We waited a long time with the Sealaska bill.

We must be working together.

I get a little passionate about this because I go to Wrangell and I see Lovey and Lovey tells me, 'Lisa, you better not forget the Landless.'

Thank you for this opportunity to testify on this important issue to several thousand Alaska Natives.

There were five towns in Southeastern Alaska... that were not allowed to form village or urban corporations...

I thank not only him for bringing this forward, but for Congressman Young over in the House...

I understand that Senator Feinstein has a Committee hearing that she would like to attend, so I will defer my comments until after she has had an opportunity to speak.

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve remains critical to our nation's energy security, and it is an asset.

It is an insurance policy, absolutely. It is a source of leverage and stability for us from a geopolitical perspective, absolutely.

While I personally wish that we did not have to charge recreation fees, I am generally supportive of FLREA.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:02 p.m., adjourned until Friday, September 11, 2015, at 9:30…

It should not take calling your Senator to get an appointment as a veteran.

I write with great urgency concerning changes that appear to be occurring in the Alaska VA Healthcare System as a result of the implementation of the Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act, the Choice Act.

Understaffing and larger provider workloads contributed to very long wait times for our veterans and poor patient care.

With the support of your Senate colleague, Lisa Murkowski

The Mat-Su clinic in Wasilla, Alaska, did not have adequate staffing or security.

I do not think that you or Congressman Young or Senator Murkowski should be the appointment makers for all of us veterans here in Alaska.

I would ask that you take a look at that, because of the sense of frustration that we have felt.

A new national one-size-fits-all policy was once again unsuccessful in Alaska.

I put a hold on his confirmation until I received a personal commitment from Dr. Shulkin to come to Alaska.

Thank you to Senator Murkowski for her hard work and leadership in including $10 million in the Senate version of the FY 2016 Interior Appropriations bill for training and technical assistance for tribal courts.

AVCP thanks Senator Murkowski for supporting H.B. 2822 and we urge this commission to recommend that the Alaska Native Tribes receive a majority of the proposed funding through that bill.

What level of support is there for the families, I think, is hugely important and I know that that's an area that we don't think about that part of them.

I was on an airplane yesterday and a gentleman came up and introduced himself to me and he says I'm so excited, I'm going down, I'm opening up a restaurant, it's part of a franchise and I said well, congratulations.