Lisa Murkowski News Archives

Only Congress stands in the way of the abundant copper, gold and silver in the U.S. Finally there is a semblance of sanity in Washington.

The defense funding bill President Obama just signed will do some helpful things for the country as a whole and Alaskans in particular.

Will a heaping spoonful of nuclear power help Congress swallow a climate bill? The Obama administration and leading congressional Democrats are wooing wavering Democrats and Republicans to back a climate bill by dangling federal tax incentives and new loan guarantees for nuclear power plant construction, even though financial analysts warn that ...

On Wednesday I attended the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on the economics of the Cap and Trade system in the Waxman-Markey House Energy bill.

MMS approves Beaufort Sea 2010 drilling if permitting requirements met Alan Bailey On Oct.

The Alaska Federation of Natives convention continued Friday with high-level politicians addressing at least 1,000 delegates gathered at the Anchorage Denaa ina Center.A Senator Lisa Murkowski addressed AFN delegates with a wide range of topics and said she is pleased that President Barack Obama is going to meet tribal leaders from across the ...

U.S. Senator Byron Dorgan , Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, introduced major legislation to improve health care for 1.9 million American Indians and Alaska Natives across the country - the Indian Health Care Improvement Reauthorization and Extension Act of 2009.

Alaska Democrats joined the nation October 20 bombarding Washington, DC with more than 100,000 supportive health care reform phone calls.

Squelching a hot and fast-moving rumor, an official source yesterday said Elliott Norse, a crusading environmentalist and fierce opponent of trawling or dragging - hauling a weighted net along the ocean bottom for groundfish - is not a candidate to fill the top spot at the National Marine Fisheries Service.

A senior Republican in the United States Senate, conservative Senator Lisa Murkowski, said she would consider voting for a "cap and trade" climate change bill Democrats are pushing if it also contains a vigorous expansion of nuclear energy and domestic oil drilling.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska An Anchorage teacher is in trouble over claims that she forged prescriptions and illegally obtained the drug Adderall from local pharmacies over the past year.

Longtime Alaska Rep. Richard Foster is being remembered as a strong advocate for rural Alaska and Nome who fought to improve the lives of those he represented.

Cook Inlet Regional, Incorporated, or CIRI, an Alaska Native Corporation on Friday added another piece to help fill the long-term energy needs of the Railbelt.

Let's credit Senator Lisa Murkowski for raising questions in the National Journal about the viability of cap-and-trade versus other approaches for the United States to employ in addressing CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions linked with global climate change.

Confession may be good for the soul, but does it make for good theater? Yes, indeed.

It is stunning that 30 Republican members of the United States Senate would vote to protect a corporation, in this case Halliburton/KBR, over a woman who was gang raped.

WASHINGTON, D.C. a ' In one of the most public tests of his political skills since taking office in July, Sen.

Waccamaw High School alumnus Kevin Ryan, 21, a Republican, said Monday that he plans to challenge longtime incumbent Vida Miller, D-Pawleys Island, in the race for S.C. House District 108 to represent Georgetown and Charleston counties.

Sen. John Ensign of Nevada was only beginning to emerge from a self-imposed political exile over fallout from his extramarital affair with a campaign aide.

Two Republican senators charged that the cap-and-trade bill unveiled by Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., on Sept.

A new Senate bill putting limits on carbon dioxide emissions will raise the cost of electricity, but national regulation is needed and could make New Jersey more competitive, the head of the state's largest utility said Wednesday.

" U.S. Sen. Al Franken and Rep. Keith Ellison introduced the Senate and House versions of the Expand School Meals Act today to ensure that low-income students are not denied nutritious food during the school day because they cannot afford to pay for it.