Lisa Murkowski

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”

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.”

Murkowski cosponsors Senate resolution backing Russian democracy advocates

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”

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

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

Tribal consortium takes ownership of Alaska Native Medical Center

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

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.”

Trump names Kyle Reardon to the Alaska judgeship vacant since 2024

“I am pleased that Kyle Reardon has been nominated to serve as a United States District Judge for Alaska.”

Money for Alaska Native education keeps flowing, but no new competition has opened in nearly two years

“I raised this issue with Secretary McMahon, and I’m pleased she agreed to expedite the obligation of the funds for the Alaska Native Education Program grants that Congress appropriated earlier this year.”

Alaska attorney general says law seating campaign finance commission is likely unconstitutional

Sullivan voted against every Iran war powers resolution this year — a record now drawing outside money before the primary

Sullivan joins a national fight to strip California of its power to set tougher emissions rules

“You've got a little bit of slime. You hose it off. That would be an incidental discharge that would be reportable to the EPA and if you fail to report, you could be subject to civil penalties.”

A hemp-ban delay divides Alaska's senators in the funding bill

Alaska's senators split as Senate confirms Blanche 50-49

“The country needs an Attorney General who will check the worst impulses of this administration.”

A stopgap pauses a rule that would let appointees veto grants, protecting billions bound for Alaska

“It also pauses OMB from finalizing a controversial proposal that would allow political appointees to halt and veto grants based on partisan ideology rather than merit.”

The Senate failed to advance a national voter photo-ID bill — and Alaska's ID rules are looser than most

“I support voter ID and believe that only U.S. citizens should vote in our elections. But the SAVE America Act goes beyond that and provides no time for proper implementation.”

Senate passes Russia sanctions bill 86-11; Murkowski and Sullivan vote yes

A program that lets people with ALS try experimental treatments just got five more years

“We said, if you're not eligible to participate in clinical trials to access investigational treatments, there's another way here for you.”

Murkowski cosponsors bill to let Coast Guard commandant sign local support deals

“Those FRCs are now built. They're hanging out in other communities because we didn't keep up with the shoreside infrastructure in Seward and Sitka specifically.”

Murkowski cosponsors Senate bill to restore Afghan Temporary Protected Status

Murkowski says she will vote against Blanche for attorney general

“Ultimately, however, I will oppose his nomination.”

New bill from Murkowski would let NOAA identify fish from the DNA they leave in the water

“Without accurate stock assessments, we cannot make the informed, science-based management decisions needed to ensure our fisheries remain sustainable for generations to come”

Murkowski presses Interior on who's paying for Trump's Smithsonian signs

“There is nothing more American than telling our story truthfully.”

Coast Guard asks Homer to accept transfer of cutter support building

“We are seeing a lot on the shipbuilding side and that's necessary. But we all know that those ships don't move around by themselves.”

Senate confirms CDC director; Alaska's vaccine question stays open

“particularly in our Alaska Native communities and with Alaska Native children”