Lisa Murkowski

What Congress had authorized was the Alaska Native Educational Equity Act, and this act provides funding for programs like the remedial and gifted education.

I just use this time to make sure you are aware of it and to ask for your commitment to work with us to ensure that we do have continued funding for these programs.

I feel very strongly that we have to enhance our domestic oil and gas production.

I also think that within the Department of Energy, one of the challenges that we face is how we educate the rest of the country on what it is that we need to be doing.

I look for your commitment, if confirmed, which I fully expect will happen here, to work closely with each of us.

I commend you for agreeing to undertake the challenge.

I strongly support his nomination, as I have said.

I think we also both agree... that energy security should be our key issue here.

We've got to end North Korea as a proliferator, there is certainly reason to believe that North Korea has been involved with Syrian efforts.

I have spoken with some of our naval leaders, and they consider themselves to be somewhat disadvantaged by our not having become a party to the Law of the Seas.

Our Arctic policy is about 15 years stale.

We are, by virtue of Alaska, and we have opportunities, when it comes to a leadership role, in collaboration on research, on environmental issues, on issues as they relate to commerce.

I truly appreciate all that you are poised to do, and what you have done in the past.

What are we going to do about a Medicare system that is failing our seniors in many areas when they can't get in to see anyone?

Our reliance upon foreign nations for a great deal of our energy needs is a problem we must solve.

At the end of the day if you don't have longer term horizons on these tax credits we're not going to get the impact that you're looking to get.

Enacting a national renewable portfolio standard would also provide a degree of certainty.

But you know here, you know, in an effort to keep the score low, we want to keep it at a short window which doesn't help in the investment community.

It's greatly appreciated.

What we need to do is provide for greater certainty through longer terms or longer extensions.

We hope that this hearing contributes to that effort.

Our President-elect Obama has committed to support these initiatives.

We recognize that it is easier said than done.

It speaks to a process that, again, as Chairman Dorgan has noted, we want to make sure that when you utilize the process that we have set up through the agency to provide for this recognition, that it not be a--I think Senator Tester used…

I understand what you have said.