Lisa Murkowski

But would you agree that the facts on the ground in Alaska are somewhat different than we have in the lower 48, in terms of advancing those leases?

I think the President's announcement this week, as it related to Alaska and the efforts on the annual lease sales up in the NPRA, the permitting, I think these are positive signals.

I think we all recognize that certain events and perhaps certain nonevents should lead us to alter last summer's spill response bill significantly.

I am hopeful that this is just a start and that the administration will also quickly issue permits to projects that are stalled all across the country right now.

Is the Air Force aware of the urgently needed repairs to the 168th Air Refueling Wing's Communications Facility?

We strongly support: S. 508, the Chimney Rock National Monument Establishment Act; S. 564, the Valles Caldera National Preserve Management Act.

In Alaska, we are very concerned with the President's decision to decommission another WHEC in the fiscal year 2012 budget.

I think, again, we need to recognize that our technologies have allowed us to do it safer, better, faster.

This is just another in a long line of drill bills for the Arctic refuge.

Oil wells to be drilled from the western Alaska state-owned lands, outside of the refuge's boundary, or from state waters to the north, and still to be able to tap oil and gas deposits located between eight and 10 miles inside the refuge.

I feel very, very strongly about [opening up portions of ANWR].

But isn't it more than just, I mean, the CO2 is what has enabled us to really gain the advantage with the enhanced oil recovery.

If you believe what the President says, you know, you've got 2 percent of the reserves out there.

We really have made some transformational, transformational movement in how we access our resources and reducing that footprint and reducing our emissions

I hope that we can work to reward and encourage developments like those that we're hearing about today.

We are kind of on the verge of trying to understand the resource that would be in these residual oil zones.

New technologies present new opportunities for the responsible development of our nation's tremendous energy resources.

I hope that we hear this morning perhaps some more success stories.

Let's do it. So that's imminent. You got to act quickly. You got to act decisively. Let's do it.

When we're talking about the EMP attack or geomagnetic disturbances, these are not new in the sense that we're just now learning of them.

The 2007 Aurora experiment by the Department of Energy and the Idaho National Lab put us all on notice of dangers of a cyber attack.

I think we recognize that the danger that is posed to our Nation's electric infrastructure from a possible cyber attack is very clear.

No single Federal agency has the wherewithal to know all aspects of the system and how to correct it.

But what I understand has happened with this. With the text that we're dealing with is that we may be in a situation here where FERC is able to bypass that stakeholder process with--which is not the intention.

I agree. It's getting tougher instead of easier.