Lisa Murkowski

We have a responsibility to uphold the agreements made with our tribes.

I am interested in learning more about what these treaties entailed, and the obligations of both the tribes and the Federal Government to Freedmen descendants.

We must stand by the rights promised to Freedmen and the treaties that guaranteed those rights over a century ago.

I think that is kind of maybe a soft support, they think it is going to work, actually you know it can work.

It has been mentioned that Interior, well, along with the rest of the government, has of course a trust responsibility to tribes.

S. 4439 would transfer administrative jurisdiction of approximately 1,031 acres of National Forest System land.

This legislation is directing the Chief of the Forest Service and the tribe to enter into an MOU to protect and enhance wild and scenic river systems, all done in cooperation with the tribe.

It sounds like not an idea situation as you are looking to literally truck water from a fire hydrant.

While we have no UIOs in Alaska, it is my understanding these organizations in the lower 48 have found the Confer process with IHS to be beneficial.

We know that settling water rights through negotiated settlements approved by Congress continues to be the best way to deliver wet water to tribes.

I think it is important to recognize that this settlement is a decade in the making.

I do think it would be prudent... that the Committee also receive testimony from the Forest Service.

Alaska is willing, and able, and ready to increase our Nation's and our allies energy security.

Alaska stands ready, willing, and certainly able to be a big part of that solution.

What we face is that 80 percent of the natural gas that comes to the most populated portion of the state, comes out of that Cook Inlet.

I can say with real certainty that was not the case.

I need you to commit to me to have BLM review the remediation and plugging standards that are used by the State of Alaska to see what improvements can be made to BLM's own standards.

I strongly support it, but that can occur even as Access Project continues.

I am not sure where the issue is in getting these resources directed out to the states.

I do think it is important for us to continue this bipartisan approach to these issues.

I think the President needs to focus on places like Alaska, not Saudi Arabia, not Venezuela, not Iran.

We can choose to look to others to meet that demand and make ourselves more vulnerable.

We cannot afford for it to take 10 years to permit a mine on public land.

Our national security interests require that we increase our domestic supply of these resources.

Yeah, but there has been nothing that was laid down they can't indicate what their interest is.