FLOOR SPEECH: Preventing and Ending Sex Trafficking, Addressing the Epidemic of Missing and Murdered Native Women
I am pleased to join my colleagues today in urging passage of the sex trafficking bill before the body. There are many reasons why we need to deter the use […]
SPEECH: 2018 Address to Alaska State Legislature
As prepared, not delivered Speaker Edgmon, President Kelly, to all of our State Senators and State Representatives, and to all who are with us this morning: thank you for inviting […]
FLOOR SPEECH: Reconciliation Legislation (Tax Reform)
Thank you, Mr. President. I appreciate the fact that I’m able to follow my colleague from South Carolina who has described and encapsulated in pretty simple terms what this proposal […]
SPEECH: Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN)
Chin’an. (Hello) Ahn Sho-Aht-Key, You-Haht Do-Ah Saw-Kooh. My name is Aan Shaawak’i. (meaning ‘Lady of the Land’) Yea-Na Ay-Yah-Haht. I am of the Raven moiety. Day-Shee-than Nah-Haht-Sit-Tee. I am of […]
FLOOR SPEECH: 40th Anniversary of Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
As prepared, not delivered. [Mr./Madam] President, I’ve come to the floor this afternoon to mark the 40th anniversary of the first oil moving through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System—an 800-mile long […]
FLOOR SPEECH: Remembering Sam R. Brice and Howard A. “Buzz” Otis
Mr. President, over Memorial Day weekend Interior Alaska lost two really good people. They were doers. And they were builders – both literally and figuratively. They were family people and […]
FLOOR SPEECH: 75th Anniversary of the Aleutian Campaign
Alaskans are emphatic about the observance of Memorial Day. We revere those who served in our military. We are home to more veterans per capita than any other state in […]
FLOOR SPEECH: National Police Week
Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, this week, our Nation observes National Police Week. This year, during National Police Week, we pay tribute to 143 officers who died in the line of […]
FLOOR SPEECH: Confirmation of Judge Gorsuch to Supreme Court
Like several in this chamber, I was asked on my input on whom to nominate to the United States Supreme Court. And after much reflection, I recommended to the Vice President that Judge Neil Gorsuch of Denver, […]
FLOOR SPEECH: Sequicentennial
[Mr./Madam] President, I have come to the Floor today in commemoration of an important milestone. Yet, speaking about it presents a bit of a challenge. How do you give a […]