Lisa Murkowski

Good and complete information about the extent and the location of our Nation's natural resources is clearly essential.

I appreciate the hearing this morning and I want to thank our nominees for their willingness to serve.

We should be honest about what a cap-and-trade program for reducing greenhouse gas emissions will do.

Our difficulties when we put in place a new system, a new regime, it's a new system.

As I've been talking to people back in my State and they bring up the issue of climate change and the cost and it always comes down to what it is going to cost.

No wonder the people I talk to back home are just scratching their head saying, so tell me what is it that is contained in this House bill and how it works?

Our goal should be good policy, not politics.

Today it's become even more important to control the cost of climate legislation. We've got millions of Americans that are struggling to find work, to pay mortgages and getting through a rough economy.

At a time when our country is struggling to come out of our longest and deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression, enacting a regressive energy tax is reckless and irresponsible.

Make no mistake. Cap and trade is an anti-growth proposal that will hurt American industries and American families more than it will help them.

Certainly from the jurisdiction perspective, as we know, with the offshore energy issues, there's a huge controversy...

But it is--it really seems to be that the stumbling blocks are at the Federal level...

Do you feel that you do not have that cooperation presently?

What we need is agency coordination. Because we can unleash the innovation that we have.

We got an amazing innovation here. Just look around us and see what Bernie is doing.

I think it's important for us to understand how we can realistically remove or perhaps soften some of these roadblocks.

As Senator Stevens always said, money is going to evaporate for Alaska. We need to work together.

I think the ocean energy guys would like that. I know that for a fact.

We've got to be addressing that. How do we better facilitate some of these smaller-scale opportunities?

How can we, from the Federal level, better help to facilitate some of the smaller-scale projects?

But I think it's important to recognize that we're going to have to figure out in this State how we can take a small community...

One of the discussions that we haven't had which really gets people a little bit agitated when I bring it up...

I think we recognize that unless we can be building things to scale to allow for the efficiencies in small communities...

25% renewable, 75% conventional but 100% affordable.

Energy is a bedrock component and fundamental underpinning of any Economy.