Lisa Murkowski

The biggest thing we need to do to combat the variants is increase vaccination.

Historically, pandemics have been very hard on our Native peoples.

We must ensure that our tribal nations have the resources they need to combat this virus.

For us as a nation to actually be going the wrong way with maternal mortality is just something that in my mind is almost unforgivable, inexcusable.

The thing that is slowing us down is the regulator, who has not caught up to the fact that this is not, you know, 'your father's Oldsmobile' in the sense of what we have been building in this country in terms of nuclear facilities for so…

It is time, it has been time to make a significant investment to just eliminate this problem once and for all.

What happens when it gets cold, that is what I outlined in that article from the Anchorage Daily News

Roughly 20 percent of rural Alaska Native homes still lack in-home pipe water.

We really need a significant Federal investment of funding to be able to fully fund these services

Thirty-two of the 190 rural Alaska communities are still unserved.

I would love to visit with you and other members of the Committee about a field trip in Alaska

This is not an issue of addressing outdated or inadequate infrastructure, it is the lack of any infrastructure whatsoever.

I look forward to hearing about what Congress should consider in a potential infrastructure bill.

These are the conditions that people in some of the parts of my State are dealing with when it comes to access to basic drinking water.

It is clear that the need is out there across Indian Country, certainly in our State, as Valerie Davidson has outlined.

I appreciate that you, Ranking Member Murkowski, and former Chairman Tom Udall, provided funding for this program in the Appropriations Committee.

People say that they are tired of being afraid of our water.

Investing in water infrastructure is investing in the future of our Native peoples.

I would hope that we'd be able to advance provisions like what Senator Baldwin and I are trying to do.

How can we know whether or not, when you have reformatted the device for the inhaler, that somehow or another increases the efficacy?

Do we have any way to determine whether these price hikes are justified?

Thank you for this very important hearing.

I am concerned that many Americans may be refusing to get vaccinated because of rumors that people have died after receiving a vaccine.

Certainty is helpful. We haven't had much certainty with this virus, and it has been challenging.

But what they are asking for is some kind of guidance in terms of timeline.