Lisa Murkowski

I now ask unanimous consent for a second reading, and in order to place the bill on the calendar under the provisions of rule XIV, I object to my own request. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objection having been heard, the bill will…

I understand there is a bill at the desk, and I ask for its first reading. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will read the title of the bill for the first time. The bill clerk read as follows: A bill (H.R. 268) making…

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I asked that it stand adjourned under the previous order following the remarks of our Democratic colleagues.

On behalf of Chairman Hatch, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of the lands package bill. I further ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time and passed and that the…

With that, I yield the floor. I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Daines). The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.

When you can get a higher fine, a higher penalty for poaching a moose than you can for violating a woman, that is a problem.

I commend our own Senator Lisa Murkowski, along with Chairman John Hoeven, Vice Chairman Tom Udall.

So I know telemedicine is not perfect. But this is one of those situations where, if we don't start thinking outside the box, the box is going to do people in.

What is being done, if anything at all, to provide for any level of training for more of these local resources?

This is one of the problems about being in the Senate and having votes while we are trying to gain information.

Mackenzie was 13 years old when she was found murdered in the church doorway.

But putting it in perspective, you can have the invasiveness of having this anonymous person on the other end walking your local health aide through this process, or think about the horror of sitting in those same clothes and that, without…

It is tragedy compounded on tragedy.

The ability to respond in these emergency situations is very, very limited.

I think we are seeing examples in other areas where we are doing just this.

We can't follow through with any of these cases, because we don't have anybody that was on the ground.

Thank you for scheduling this very, very important hearing to address the issue of missing and murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the provisions of S. Res. 715 and do so as a further mark of respect for the late George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President…

In order to be a serious player in a global nuclear future, we have to develop, we have to commercialize and we have to sell the most advanced reactors in the world.

I have introduced one that we are calling the Nuclear Energy Leadership Act, and I have long been concerned that here in this country we are ceding our place as a global leader in nuclear power.

I appreciate your leadership, the effort that we made to lift that oil export ban, that 40-year policy that has allowed us now to be a participant, to be a major player, a world player with our oil resources has been transformative.

I just ask for your commitment to help continue this process of engagement, recognizing that this is a considerable issue to not only that community, but to others in the region.

A system-wide blackout is mostly the stuff of nightmares and Hollywood thrillers, but it is also a high-consequence threat that our nation must be prepared to respond to.

The standard is that a judge must act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the independence, integrity and impartiality of the judiciary and shall avoid the impropriety and the appearance of impropriety.

We owe it to the people of America to return to a less rancorous confirmation process.