The Republican plan to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling would not offer us any refuge from red ink.

Leave it. Leave it alone. Let it be what it has always been. Natural. Undisturbed.

This is not a Democratic issue or a Republican issue--it is an issue of legacy and common sense.

It also makes no sense to open up a pristine area like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge when the oil companies are choosing not to drill on millions of acres they're already leasing.

We do need to create new jobs. There are many opportunities in a new energy economy to move forward with the wind, solar.

We need more jobs in this country. We need more money to reduce the deficit. But there is a better way.

Ending Big Oil's unfair tax breaks would cut the deficit by more than $36 billion over the next decade.

We have opposed drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for all the time we have been around.

If you are serious about the deficit reduction, let us tax the oil companies much more than they are today.

Protecting the environment is as important to Alaskans and perhaps more important to Alaskans than to all Americans.

You risk stalling the engine of our economy by starving it of power.