Lisa Murkowski

I think as the cost of storage has declined we are going to continue to see the deployment on both sides of the meter, grow increasingly rapidly.

S. 1422 directs DOE to establish a program to improve education and training for energy workers.

The cuts so often come in the student services, the counseling, those services for those who most need that help in understanding what their debt burden is.

Do we really have $170 billion that we can provide for incentives to the States?

The 477 tribes across this country agree with Senator Lisa Murkowski and Senator Mark Begich in pushing Congress to amend the original law.

Senator Murkowski is exactly right: research suggests that the most important predictor of default is whether a student finishes their degree.

If we choose to sit on it or to close it off or to lock it up, then I think we need to answer for that.

Offshore development must also benefit states and local communities, and that is why my legislation supports revenue sharing for Alaska.

I think the challenge for us is how we access it safely, responsibly and for the benefit of the people who are engaged in that economic opportunity.

I strongly believe that more predictable lease sales with more workable lease terms will provide more value for the treasury.

For too many Alaskans energy is not diverse, secure or affordable.

Tell me how this does not violate the intent of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) and the no-more clause when you have in place a proposal like this.

So we would just need to create in Congress a goal for our conventional fuels on public lands.

They tell me their biggest obstacle is our Federal Government.

We must--must--address some of these withdrawal issues that are strangling Alaskans.

The proposals that we have here in terms of limitations on opportunity for access are really quite extraordinary, proposing to place off limits most any form of development.

I want to make sure that we have got this right and, again, that we are achieving the progress.

And I think Alaska has led in terms of the standard.

Alaska is the 'A' in ANILCA, and we thought we had a pretty good understanding as to what the no-more clause meant.

I think it would be extraordinarily important for you to hear directly from the men and women on the ground in their place as to what this means.

But they would have to build a completely separate system--a completely separate system--up north within NPRA, a redundant system at extraordinary cost.

If you are trying to talk benefits here, again, if those that are willing to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into a project and have nothing to show for it and may be forced to walk away from this project, walk away from this…

Well, right now, the American taxpayer is getting 100 percent of nothing, and the tribes, the native corporations are not being benefited at all because there is no production.

You say you support an all-of-the-above energy policy. You say you support increased production or production on the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska, but you are not doing much to facilitate it.

But this is, again, an area where we need to be looking beyond those one-time monies that we received within the Helium Stewardship Act to better define how we are going to address the cost of this cleanup.