Lisa Murkowski
Lisa Murkowski
Lisa Ann Murkowskiis the senior United States Senator from Alaska and a member of the Republican Party. She has served in the Senate since 2002. She became the state's senior senator when Ted Stevens lost his election to Mark Begich in 2009...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 May 1957
CountryUnited States of America
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The public opinion polls, particularly after (Hurricane) Katrina, have established the American public is in support of opening ANWR to limited exploration and development,
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We haven't done what we need to do in this country to increase our supply.
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Last year, the Ninth Circuit had a caseload nearly 60 percent larger than the next largest circuit, ... This causes delays in a circuit where the average disposition time is now five months longer than the national average.
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Together we have to let the nation in on a valuable secret: When it comes to our natural resources, Alaskans know what we're doing.
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What we anticipate to get out of ANWR would be the equivalent of the Texas oilfields, ... To those suggesting Texas is insignificant in terms of its contribution, we would say that is crazy.
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It's not in law, but was very clearly made part of the record,
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It's a bridge to the future of the people of Ketchikan,
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We can develop ANWR oil without harm to the environment and to the wildlife that live there,
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Whether it was his ability to turn around the Massachusetts economy or turn around businesses in the private sector, Mitt Romney has demonstrated the leadership that we need in the White House to get the country on the right track.
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I don't buy into this, 'Oh, poor us. We've got tough budget problems.'
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We've been helping you out in Alaska in considerable ways, and you're walking away from the responsibility, and we're not going to allow that.
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I have never once asked Alaskans to like how I got this job.
We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum.
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Alaska's contribution to America's freedom isn't just the oil we provide or the food we harvest from the seas or our location which is the best in the world for our military. It is more than that. It begins with the fact that Alaskans are free-thinkers.