Lisa Murkowski

I think folks understand how important it is to have somebody at the head of the agency, particularly as we are looking to, significant rollout of Federal dollars.

But I think we have got a third wave coming at us as a follow on from COVID.

I urge the administration to send the Senate a nomination for the IHS director soon.

This is a concern and a consideration that, again, is extraordinarily concerning.

This is a project that has been under review for multiple administrations, beginning within the Obama Administration.

The Willow pause has been in place now for 100 days.

It is the largest single tract of federal land in the entire country. Its primary purpose is to satisfy the energy needs of the United States.

I want a commitment from you that these allotments are not going to continue to be delayed.

I have suggested that that is not a trajectory that I want to go down.

What has happened with this, basically, this re-look at these PLOs is absolutely egregious.

The Native people, who live and work and raise their families in this region, feel that they have not had an opportunity to be heard on this.

I certainly believe that.

The growing climate solutions legislation that is being introduced today.

I have legislation that I have introduced with Senator Whitehouse, the Blue Carbon for Our Planet Act.

It's not just about access, it's then affordability.

We are looking to develop a more fulsome proposal for our Alaska marine highway system.

Broadband is one of those tools that if we don't have it, we're not a participant in the broader market out there.

There's no crumbling infrastructure because we haven't built it yet.

We do not intend to compromise the funding of those cutters.

Well, we'll work with you on that.

We got a lot of fish, but we don't have a lot of workers, and so we have been challenged year over year as it relates to gaining adequate workers.

The fish don't really care what we're doing back here in Washington and what our timeline is

Naghe nduninyu, in the Koyukon Athabaskan language, this means welcome, or even better, precious you came.

We certainly have much more that we need to do there.

This lack of basic resources, what most of us take for granted, but this, we certainly believe, helped produce or certainly added to the cause of more than 13,000 American Indians and Alaska Natives who tested positive for coronavirus in…