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Today: Cantwell to Resume Energy Debate in U.S. Senate Beginning at 2:15PM EST/11:15AM PST

Vote Scheduled on Amendment Containing Cantwell’s Yakima River Basin Bill, S. 1694  Watch the debate live here.  Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) will lead Democratic debate on a bipartisan energy bill in the U.S. Senate. Final passage of S. 2012, the Energy […]

Chairman Murkowski and Ranking Member Cantwell Announce Updated Hearing Schedule

U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., today announced an updated hearing schedule for the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The full committee’s hearing to review the challenges and opportunities for oil and gas development in different price environments will be postponed until Tuesday, April 26, at 10 a.m. The Energy and Natural […]

Sen. Murkowski Reacts to Final Well Control Rule

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, released the following statement in response to the Department of the Interior’s final Well Control Rule: “The administration’s regulatory onslaught against Alaskan energy production continues unabated. In a period when we should be thinking about ways of making American oil and gas more competitive, the federal government’s prescriptive approach to rulemaking […]

Murkowski: Federal Government Forcing Isolated Alaska Native Community to Live in Fear

“King Cove Has Suffered Enough from Interior’s Heartless Rejection of a Life-Saving Road”  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today conducted oversight of the Department of the Interior’s callous decision to deny the Alaska Native community of King Cove reliable access to medical transportation. Murkowski pointed to the administration’s rejection of an 11-mile, non-commercial use, gravel road […]

Senate Democrats Urge House Republicans To Take Bipartisan Approach To Puerto Rican Debt Crisis

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Bill Nelson (D-Fl.) today called for substantial improvements to the House Natural Resources bill on Puerto Rico. Senate Democrats […]

Media Advisory: Sens. Murkowski, Sullivan & Rep. Don Young to Hold Pen & Pad on Thursday

Will Highlight Interior’s Failure to Help the People of King Cove, Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, will hold a pen-and-pad session on Thursday at 2 p.m. to discuss the Department of the Interior’s heartless rejection of a life-saving road for the Alaska Native community of King […]

Sen. Murkowski: Advanced Manufacturing Holds “Unprecedented Opportunities” for U.S.

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today conducted oversight of the status of innovative technologies in advanced manufacturing by highlighting the economic importance of the sector – an estimated 24 million domestic jobs – while cautioning that there is much room for improvement in workforce development. “The truth is that not only do advanced manufacturing industries […]

Cantwell: Investing in U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Will Support Jobs and Save Energy Costs

Read her opening statement here. Washington, D.C. – Today, Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) highlighted advanced manufacturing work in the state of Washington, demonstrating how the nation can lead worldwide in advanced manufacturing. “The success of our manufacturing sector is vital to growing our economy,” […]