Lisa Murkowski

Childcare is not only a workforce issue, it is a military readiness issue.

In my state right now, 61 percent, 61 percent of Alaskans live in what they call a childcare desert.

I don't view childcare as a threat to me as a parent, about whether or not we are losing our values.

Thank you for your service. Thank you, certainly on behalf of the State of Alaska.

We really haven't talked about affordability.

It's amazing what can happen in this country right now.

I don't think it really is fair to assign a date when you are talking about a transition.

It is impacting our military security. It is impacting our economic security when you cannot get people to be able to return to work because there is no childcare for them.

I don't view childcare as a threat to me as a parent, about whether or not we are losing our values.

I co-sponsored that because I thought it was a good way to actually help assist childcare providers and families.

When we are looking for workers from everything from slope workers to teachers to doctors, I am having workforce issues in other spaces because we don't have access to childcare.

Childcare is not only a workforce issue, it is a military readiness issue.

In Alaska, unfortunately, if a young person has been told that we don't have any services that we can provide to you, the care that they receive is outside.

I don't know that we can do enough fast enough, and particularly when we are looking at suicide statistics for young people who are struggling and are just simply not able to get the mental health treatment that they need.

The lethality of fentanyl is something that scares the living daylights out of me.

In Alaska, unfortunately, if a young person has been told that we don't have any services that we can provide to you, the care that they receive is outside.

I don't know that we can do enough fast enough, and particularly when we are looking at suicide statistics for young people who are struggling and are just simply not able to get the mental health treatment that they need.

The lethality of fentanyl is something that scares the living daylights out of me.

We are nervous about all that is happening there. And I think you all probably would agree that we have reason to be nervous.

We need a commercially available icebreaker up there soon, because we are not going to see our Polar Security Cutters for 3, 4 years and probably longer than that.

We are nervous about all that is happening there. And I think you all probably would agree that we have reason to be nervous.

Here in Alaska, we are where the Indo-Pacific Nation and us, as an Arctic nation, intersect, these two critical regions intersect.

We need to have a deep water port in the Arctic, now needs to move forward.

I don't know that we can do enough fast enough, and particularly when we are looking at suicide statistics for young people who are struggling and are just simply not able to get the mental health treatment that they need.

The lethality of fentanyl is something that scares the living daylights out of me.