Lisa Murkowski

It is critical that you, and really all of us, work to ensure that steep barriers to entry on infrastructure funding, such as high matching requirements, are avoided for these very smaller communities.

I hope you will be working with us on legislative protections and not relying solely on heavy-handed administrative approaches.

I am glad to be joining Chairman Merkley for this very important discussion about EPA's fiscal year 2022 budget request.

I prioritized PFAS funding from both the research and the need for regulatory actions.

Because, again, critically important in a State like ours.

I think it is going to be important to not only lower that temperature, but for you in this position to really set that tone as an ambassador and as an advocate for all of Indian Country and Native people.

I need to know that you are aware of how important it is that ANCs are included in the ISDEA definition of Indian tribe.

I do just want to note for the record, it is my understanding that we are still waiting for some outstanding documents from your questionnaire.

It is also time for the Federal Government to allow tribes to dictate how they want to utilize energy development on their lands.

I believe Mr. Newland has the necessary experience to hit the ground running, implement the President's agenda, and execute Indian Country's priorities.

It is important to understand and to represent all of them.

You will be replacing Tara Sweeney, who was the first Alaska Native to hold the job of Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs.

I appreciate the conversation that we had by phone, and the opportunity to continue our discussions today.

I am committed to working with tribes to ensure their voices are heard.

I think we are all trying to get to the same place, which is we don't want to see these significant cuts to our victims services.

The way we are now, that would require taking less money out of the fund, which is the opposite of what you want.

We think that we can have a more robust presence and a presence that lends the credibility and the stature that the Arctic demands

Urging the Senate to ratify the Law of the Sea

I think it is worth noting for the record that we do have some seeming inconsistencies here when we are asking those in Europe, Germany most notably, that keep away from Russia and yet in just this past few months here, we've seen an…

So we're going to keep pushing on ANWR and following the law which is that those leases will move forward.

To be making a decision for the short-term political gain at the expense of understanding and acknowledging what was in front of us on January 6th. I think we need to look at that critically.

This was an attack on our Capitol designed to stop, to stop a process that has been in play for a century plus. So we just can’t pretend that nothing bad happened, or that people just got too excitable. Something bad happened. And it’s…

We just passed into law, and the President signed on Monday, legislation that will allow cruise ships to bypass Canada.

I just want your commitment to ensure this full schedule of fisheries surveys is conducted in Alaska in 2021.

One of the real significant impacts that we saw in Alaska due to the COVID-19 pandemic, was a significant hit to our tourist sector.