Lisa Murkowski

I look forward to working with the Senate Energy Committee to move this legislation forward.

Small miners were going to get some pretty simple due process and have a chance to fix their mistakes before they lost their mining claims.

A lot of small things have, I think, profound impact on men and women that are trying to make things happen.

I hope that this committee would show some understanding here because the current practice by BLM, I don't think, is fair.

It doesn't matter whether the U.S. mails were late. It doesn't matter if the BLM personnel put the wrong time and date stamp on it.

Okay. I would appreciate a very prompt response and would look forward to that.

Now is not the time to be putting new programs onto the books, when we're effectively shortchanging the very, very important efforts.

I appreciate your statement and the reassurance that we're not going to see a downgrade in these very important stock assessments.

I'm going to talk about fish. When we talked prior to your nomination, I told you that this was my priority within the Commerce Department, and I wanted to make it your priority.

This DEIS could significantly alter the framework of what is, hopefully, anticipated there in the Arctic.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for scheduling this hearing today and for an opportunity to bring up a bill that I have introduced, S. 1898.

This legislation is vital for the future of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo.

I do agree with Congressman Young when he said that this bill will do more than just transfer land.

TSA, in order to be effective, needs to have a one-size-fits-all approach.

We are talking about safety here.

There are some very legitimate concerns that come from this type of an approach.

I am hopeful and would certainly encourage the Army to revisit its decision to retire the C-23.

I appreciate that you have gone there yourself, and would be curious in your impression, in terms of the quality of what we're doing in Alaska, in terms of the training.

As important as it is, when we talk about our military equipment and the infrastructure needs, I think we recognize that it always come back to the individual, to the human being.

I know that the folks in Alaska recognize, again, not only the strategic advantage that is gained there, but some of the training opportunities that we have.

So the question that we're wondering in Alaska is you've got this push by Fish and Wildlife to move forward a new land management plan for ANWR that may very well result in a recommendation for additional wilderness created there within…

As you may know, I am working to address that because I'm not certain that we do have the sufficient tools.

I guess the question to you is in light of what we have seen come forward since the November technical conference.

I'm assuming that you would agree with me that this cumulative impact has the potential to be quite serious in terms of reliability.

I don't believe that there is one silver bullet. I agree with the President on that.