Lisa Murkowski

UAA gets $725,000 for nursing simulation equipment at rural campus sites

Navy commissions USS Ted Stevens in Whittier

“He hired the first female floor assistant in the United States Senate, and Captain Hayes is now the first woman to command this class of ship.”

Kodiak Assembly member says Navy would back grid funding bid tied to Spruce Cape project

Senate committee advances five-year renewal of federal program mapping Alaska's geology

“It's a big deal in, in my state when we see the very significant gaps in geologic data.”

Murkowski cosponsors Senate resolution marking Filipino American History Month

Murkowski cosponsors bill letting housing builders use industry certifications to prove materials are US-made

“I'm committed to using every federal resource available to make building homes in Alaska more streamlined and affordable across the board”

Cordova science center gets NOAA grant to rebuild Prince William Sound ocean profiler

Senate vote to advance data center utility cost bill fails 57-43

Senate stalls congressional stock trading bill on party-line vote

Senate confirms Sonderling as labor secretary, 47-41

“so that we don't have to go through this scramble every year wondering if our workforce is going to be able to meet the salmon runs.”

Senate leaders release bipartisan permitting overhaul that would change NEPA reviews

“so good”

Murkowski cosponsors bill to write newborn and postpartum supply kit program into law

“The time immediately after childbirth is an especially vulnerable time for mothers and their newborns.”

Murkowski-backed bill extending ALS treatment access programs for five years passes Congress

“For those living with ALS, every day matters. They cannot afford disruptions in research, treatment access, and support,”

Senate sends Anchorage Quyana Clubhouse land transfer to president

“This legislation will give Southcentral Foundation the tools to expand the facility and its services, including intensive outpatient programming, so it can continue meeting the needs of Alaska Native people for generations to come.”

Murkowski votes no as Senate blocks Israel human rights request

Lee objection blocks Murkowski-Merkley bill on presidential memorials

“giving very little context or content about either to Congress or the public”

Senate passes national college NIL bill 77-22, with Murkowski voting yes and Sullivan not voting

Murkowski bill would modify and continue Snettisham's exemption from federal hydropower licensing

FDA to pay Alaska $540,768 for state food safety inspections

“our DEC performs food safety inspection, permitting, and enforcement work under contract for FDA and has for many years”

Federal report puts Alaska's maternal death rate above the national rate but warns the count is small

“We have to do a better job as we're addressing maternal mortality issues and ensuring that our Native communities are adequately represented in the data that helps inform.”

FDA nominee Overton commits to Alaska food inspections and salmon labeling but not mifepristone access

“You have effectively taken about 80% of our state and put them in a really challenging— excuse me, 80% of the communities in the state and put them in a very challenging position in terms of access to providers”

Murkowski cosponsors bill to keep Temporary Protected Status for Ukrainians in the US

Senate Indian Affairs Committee advances Native housing rewrite to full Senate

“In Alaska, we routinely hear about overcrowding, extraordinarily high construction costs, homelessness, and difficulties that communities face in providing housing for teachers, healthcare workers, law enforcement officers, and other essential workers who are making a little too much to qualify for some assistance programs”

Federal rules leave some village homes out of water projects

“that are still relying on honey buckets, haul wagons, and this again is public safety, public health when you don't have clean water and clean wastewater systems”

Alaska's universities fall outside parts of an advancing college sports bill

Murkowski's bill would extend a rural maternity program Alaska never used

“Whether you’re in Napakiak or New York City, every mother and child deserves access to quality care, and the programs implemented through this bill will help bring us closer to that goal.”

U.S. signs Greenland security pact; Murkowski says she is encouraged

“I’m encouraged that our nations have reached a breakthrough that respects Greenlandic self-determination and the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Denmark while strengthening our shared security in the Arctic.”

Alaska's three-judge court has been short since 2022; Reardon would fill the last seat

“he is ready to hit the ground running as a U.S. District Court judge”

Murkowski cosponsors Senate resolution backing Russian democracy advocates

Unalaska student wins national naval history award for Angoon bombardment project

House subcommittee hears testimony on conveying 21,578 Denali acres to Doyon

Alaska ended childhood liver cancer, and Washington noticed

The Senate questions Alaska's nominee for a long-empty federal judgeship

“The District of Alaska has not been fully constituted as a court since 2022, so we are pleased to be able to fill this remaining vacancy.”

Both Alaska senators back advancing a federal NIL bill

The Senate blocked federal crypto rules. Alaska already wrote its own

The program mapping Alaska's subsurface runs out at the end of the year

Senate panel will take up Native housing bill co-sponsored by both Alaska senators

Ketchikan council to vote Thursday on $30,000 landslide grant

Coast Guard awards $315 million for Kodiak fuel pier, and comment on the review closes Sept. 16

Ketchikan council to vote on seventh amendment to water consulting deal

Coast Guard extends Anchorage firm's contracts $2.2 million through January

Federal grant will test a Yup'ik healing framework against homelessness

Tribal consortium takes ownership of Alaska Native Medical Center

The Tlingit & Haida tribal government opposes opening the Tongass

“It makes it near impossible to be able to provide for what we would determine to be necessary projects.”

NOAA maps out how new tools enter Alaska's fish surveys

Chugachmiut's Sugt'stun language game gets new gameplay footage

A tiny Copper River village corporation is quietly renovating federal courthouses across Tennessee

The federal government wants to lift roadless protections, including in the Tongass

“the forest areas within the Tongass remain fully fully protected through existing laws and through other regulations”

Alaska ferry system awarded more than $410 million in federal funding

“will help realize the vision I had as a lead author of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act”

USDA proposes lifting roadless rule protections on Tongass and Chugach

“It's never been a good fit for us.”