It seems to me you're talking about balance. I think we need to work to try to find that balance here.

What I would ask from you is that if you are confirmed, your commitment to work for a suitable solution...

I know that I can speak, probably speak, hopefully speak for the chairman on this, that others on the committee will as well given that most were not able to attend and based on the conversations I've had with others.

The leadership that you've demonstrated as the Acting Chair, I think, has been very important.

I feel very strongly that we ought to be pushing to get at less than 1 percent leakage from the well to the consumer.

I don't want us to be going backward at a time when we need to be making forward progress.

the issues that are front and foremost for us as Alaskans are really key to our everyday opportunity to either have an economy of any sort or be able to access healthcare.

But it seems that that only happens to favor conservation, unfortunately, not production.

We've got to get at some of these critical environmental issues. One of them is methane leakage.

We think all of you are highly qualified for the positions you've been nominated for.

Senator Murkowski and Senator Landrieu, in my view, have been very constructive, you know, in terms of trying to think again on these kinds of issues.

I want that assurance that you still remain engaged in the policy level, the decisionmaking that goes on.

I think it's important to have your leadership there. I want it made very clear that I have that confidence in you.

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What we've talked about, Senator Murkowski and I, from the very beginning, is we were going to make sure that consumers were front and center in this whole debate about the future of energy policy.

I was told from our tribal health providers that they have gotten confirmation from OMB that IHS is going to be limited to a 2 percent sequestration cut in fiscal year 2014, if a sequestration proceeds under the BCA.

I appreciate you saying that because it is an area that is somewhat overlooked.

I want to make sure that our Loan Guarantee Program is right.

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It's important that we honor our compacts.

It's important to have an advocate who knows and understands what the potential can be for us.

I think that that's good news for the country. I think that that gives us opportunities.