Lisa Murkowski

I would encourage you--encourage you--to go to Alaska and to hear the people.

This just is not reasonable.

Let me talk a little bit or let us have a discussion here about where we are with the contaminated lands...

So saying that we can do a better job I think belies the obvious.

So not necessarily new leases but on existing leases, you are seeing increased production.

Do you even have a measurable goal for conventional production of oil and gas on our public lands?

Well, and we need to find those efficiencies.

I think it is important that we do what we can to increase production on our public lands and thus increase revenues to our Treasury because production is up.

What I would like to do is figure that out because, again, it is one thing to identify that these are these areas. It is another thing to have the action plan and have everybody understand what that action plan is and the level of…

In my view, you need to have a more expedited process.

But the obligation is paramount as well.

Good. I want a lot of hope.

The President's request assumes Congress does not have to comply with spending limits.

Thanks to the leadership of Senator Murkowski and others who made the passage of the recent Helium Act possible.

This subcommittee will have to make some tough choices about where to spend limited resources.

It is not hard to foresee a day of reckoning when this will become real for all of us.

I think we have a real problem on our hands as a result of our nation's borderline insidious reliance on mineral imports.

Our foreign dependence is difficult enough, but the concentration of that supply presents additional challenges.

I agree with you. We have got a lot of work to do, and I look forward to those conversations with you and your team.

I would ask that you not forget the smaller communities where we see--we see an addiction and a devastation truly just taking our communities, just wiping them out.

I would like your commitment that you will work with me, you will work with the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) to really be involved to a personal extent and degree with some of these challenges that we are facing as they relate to…

Well, know that we stand ready to work with you. I would love to have further discussion about what we really think of Russia's Arctic push and, again, have a better strategy moving forward.

All anybody wanted to talk about was Russia's arctic push, and what were we going to do in that regard.

I think we are beyond the time to be doing plans, and quite honestly I am not really interested in more studies.

The United States may be 40 years behind... depending on how you are talking to.