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.

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

I rise today to reintroduce legislation in a dramatically different form to reinstate two small miner's claims, which have been taken from them because of an inequitable federal administrative process. Under revisions to the Federal Mining…

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.

while my colleague from Oregon is still on the floor, I want to thank him for his leadership through these discussions over these past several days on the floor and longer prior to that. He has been a leader in trying to thread the needle…

I will close with these words which appear at the gates to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. The words of President George H.W. Bush: ``Carved on these walls is the story of America, of a continuing quest to preserve both…

today, I am reintroducing a piece of legislation which I strongly believe in and know that it is long overdue. The Hmong Veterans' Service Recognition Act is a bill to authorize the interment in national cemeteries of Hmong veterans who…

they tell me their biggest obstacle is our Federal Government.

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.

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

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.

This just is not reasonable.

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

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

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

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…

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

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…

Well, and we need to find those efficiencies.

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