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

I would like to take a few moments this afternoon to talk about where we are at the end of this year, 2015. There has been a lot of talk about wrap-up, a lot of talk about how we knitted together the outstanding issues before us as a…

I rise with Senator Cantwell of Washington State to introduce the Omnibus Territories Act of 2015, which relates to the U.S. territory of American Samoa, as well as the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands…

I understood that the Senator from Ohio was seeking consent to speak after me. I would like to take a few minutes this morning to speak about how the Affordable Care Act is harming the people of the State of Alaska. This Senator has come…

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

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

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

Designation of the coastal plain as wilderness is long overdue.

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

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.

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.

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

We will keep pushing on that.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I think we need to know that going into it.

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

last week President Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, our Nation's highest civilian honor, to my longtime friend and fellow Alaskan Bonnie Carroll. In my judgment, this is a recognition long due. While America may have first…

in compliance with paragraph 11(a) of rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources has obtained from the Congressional Budget Office an estimate of the costs of S. 2011, the Offshore…

in compliance with paragraph 11(a) of rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources has obtained from the Congressional Budget Office an estimate of the costs of S. 720, the Energy Savings and…

in compliance with paragraph 11(a) of rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources has obtained from the Congressional Budget Office an estimate of the costs of S. 2012, the Energy Policy…