Lisa Murkowski

My question has to do with the terminology ``Big Oil'' and the responsibility for ethanol. The Senator from Alaska understands that Big Oil does not make ethanol.

I wish to recognize the effort by Senator Nickles to remind us all of the obligation we have with regard to the cost of renewables. This amendment obviously would change the fee and the renewable portfolio standard from 3 cents to 1.5…

The amendment proposes to eliminate municipal solid waste as a qualifying generator type for the purpose of the renewable portfolio standard. I rise to oppose the amendment. Specifically, I am opposed to the renewable portfolio standard as…

I was hoping the minority leader would respond by asking me a question. Having been there exactly a year ago today, with Senator Bingaman, who left his gloves at home and we had to find a pair of socks for him--we later found him a pair of…

I ask the Senator from Louisiana: Some people have suggested that the better answer is, rather than opening ANWR to drilling, we should simply concentrate on the Gulf of Mexico and put up every possible lease sale. I think that lease sales…

I certainly concur we have had a lot of hearings, but I ask the majority whip why we did not have any markups. Why did the majority leader forbid our committee from having markups after the hearings, when a majority of the committee…

On a note of levity and in the spirit of Senator Durbin with the authorization of a study on the use of bicycles as a pilot program, I am going to pilot my program home tonight on my girls' bicycle which I bought for $20. It is one which I…

If we expand this to consumer groups, would we not want to have some consideration or environmental input, too? Oftentimes if you have one and do not have the other, then the other wants to be heard. And if we are talking about more…

My concern is whether or not the proposal would really create another study panel to study what has already been studied many times. Quite frankly, we already knew with what price hikes were associated; namely, a shortage. I often find it…

Mr. President, I will file an amendment, but I shall not bring it up at this time. This amendment would require the cessation of importing oil from Iraq, which is currently at 1.2 million barrels a day, until such time as the President…

I want to make one more point before I respond to my friend from New Mexico. A State with a 10-percent mandate, they say, on hydro, would now have to also meet an additional 10 percent--OK? An additional 10 percent, with something new…

I would prefer to see an up-or-down vote. We have had a good debate on this issue. Some of the things, however, that I think we have overlooked are, this isn't the first time we have come up with renewables in this country or discussed it…

I wonder if the Senator can explain to me how any of the examples he has given on that chart will significantly reduce our imports of oil from foreign nations? He is talking about the generation of electricity from these sources, but we do…

I find it rather curious, in looking across from the solar down to geothermal, most of that is on the west coast, in California. There is not much on the east coast. The wind, on the far right of the chart, suggests that the northern areas…

And a follow-up to that: As an example, I have been over to the Yangtze River. I have seen the construction of the Three Gorges dam. It is truly one of the largest construction projects in the history of the world, much like the projects…

I didn't hear all the debate. Do I understand that there is nothing in the Bingaman-Daschle bill that would prohibit a scenario that would suggest that maybe the Three Gorges dam, which is in the process of being completed and would…

I agree, it was a good start. However, we still have a fair piece to go before we reach the end of this trail. If the Senator would recall during last week's debate I mentioned that there were a number of additional items that would need…

I do indeed understand what my friend from New Mexico is saying. This point is especially true when you recall that the oil and gas producers who hold the leases on the Prudhoe Bay gas have stated publicly that the project as it now stands…

I encourage Members to have our staffs try to work a little more closely so we can avoid duplication. Clearly, I personally had not been notified, although I was off the floor. I was across the street with some of the folks who were…

I have long advocated moving forward to promote competition in the electric power industry. Competition certainly benefits consumers, increases supply, helps reduce the cost of power. I have long promoted the three guiding principles for…

If the minority leader were here, he would cite the specific differences. The Senator from Massachusetts can either accept my explanation or not. But factually, what happened is that the committee was forbidden to address any business…

It is not a movement of rapidity. We passed opening ANWR in 1995, as the Senator from Massachusetts will recall, and it was vetoed.

I thought the Senator from Massachusetts was going to respond to my question; which was, Is he going to allow a 50-vote on ANWR? I don't think he addressed that.

If the Senator will look up the Record, they have never seen, in the 22 years I have been here, an occasion where the majority leader has absolutely forbid the committees to meet. The Republican leader may have moved bills without going…

Isn't it based on a historical evaluation of what has happened? And so it is factual in relationship to actual statistical information.