Lisa Murkowski

Kill it and it's gone. There is a tax impact coming forward. That's gonna hurt the people in my state.

It’s just entirely punitive to the wind and solar industry.

It just came about like it was airdropped into the bill.

My hope is that House is going to look at this and recognize that we’re not there yet.

Kill it and it’s gone.

Do I like this bill? No.

My hope is that the House is going to look at this and recognize that we’re not there yet.

We do not have a perfect bill, by any stretch of the imagination.

That weighs very, very heavily, and so what I tried to do was to ensure that my colleagues understood what that means when you live in an area where there are no jobs.

I have made clear very early on that we cannot move forward with a bill that makes cuts to Medicaid.

Many of us are looking at that and saying, it makes no sense to put a greater burden on the most vulnerable in our communities when it comes to health care and access to health care.

This is probably the most difficult and agonizing legislative 24-hour period that I have encountered.

We do not have a perfect bill by any stretch of the imagination.

I struggled mightily with the impact on the most vulnerable in this country, when you look to Medicaid and SNAP.

I still have concerns about SNAP and Medicaid.

If the Republican Party has become nothing more than the party of Trump, I sincerely question whether this is the party for me.

We are all afraid. It’s quite a statement. But we are in a time and a place where I certainly have not been here before.

Do I feel that within my Republican conference, I always feel like I’m right here in my political home? No.

There may be that possibility.

Trump wants to be seen as special and uniquely capable. He seems to have a deep psychological need for that kind of approval.

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I realize that my job, number one, is to be effective for Alaska.

I don't think that we should cede – we, the Congressional branch – should cede ground to anybody, not to the courts, not to the executive.

I still have the same Republican values that I have long held. But my allegiance is not to the Republican Party. It's not to a party. It is to the people who returned me.

It absolutely reinforced that. It's a daily reminder of how I was returned to the United States Senate. It was not through the help or the assistance of the Republican Party; it was through the hope and the assistance and the persistence…