Chairman's Press
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold five hearings in April, including oversight hearings on the Bureau of Land Management’s final hydraulic fracturing rule, the administration’s Quadrennial Energy…
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both R-Alaska, today introduced legislation to honor former Alaska Gov. Jay Hammond. The Jay S. Hammond Wilderness Bill would name…
U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both R-Alaska, today introduced legislation to rectify an injustice done to the Alaska Native residents of five Southeast communities that were prohibited from…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today introduced the American Mineral Security Act of 2015, to prevent future mineral supply shocks and boost the competitiveness of our energy, defense, electronics, medical,…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today criticized the Forest Service and Department of Agriculture for failing to actively manage federal forest lands in Alaska and across the West. Murkowski said…
U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), today introduced bipartisan legislation to safeguard and permanently dispose of the nation’s stockpiles of spent…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after 60 Minutes reported on the United States’ dependence on China for rare earth elements – and the consequences that…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its final rule for the regulation of hydraulic fracturing on federal lands….
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today stressed the economic and national security benefits of ending the 1975 federal ban on exporting domestically produced crude oil at a hearing before the…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, introduced legislation Tuesday to exempt Alaska’s national forests from the roadless rule to ensure that affected communities can economically develop renewable energy and other natural…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today said reliability and affordability must remain core considerations as innovation, the deployment of new technologies, and the impact of public policy choices begin to…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee, and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., today led a bipartisan letter to U.S. Secretary of State John…
U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., today urged their colleagues to support bipartisan legislation that would greatly improve opportunities for hunters, anglers, and outdoors enthusiasts on federal…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell listing the medevacs carried out from King Cove, Alaska, in the 14 months since…
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, recently submitted comments to the Bureau of Management (BLM) on its proposal to prohibit mining activity on 685,000 acres within Interior Alaska’s 2.1 million-acre Fortymile mining…
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement on the recent announcement of Earl Stewart to be the new supervisor for the Tongass National Forest. “I look forward to…
U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), David Vitter (R-La.), and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), this week sent a letter to…
On a perfectly snowy day in Washington, DC, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Ranking Member Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., hosted a hearing on the economic…
U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) today announced 12 new Republican and Democratic cosponsors to the Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act of 2015. The Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act, which was…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today criticized U.S. Forest Service Chief Thomas Tidwell’s 2016 budget request for its lack of willingness to actively manage federal forests for the benefit of…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today expressed shock and disbelief at Interior Secretary Sally Jewell’s continued failure to protect the health and safety of the people of King Cove, Alaska….
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today criticized President Obama’s veto of the Keystone XL Pipeline Act (S.1), legislation that would approve…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee, today issued the following opening statement at the hearing on the Interior Department’s $13.2 billion budget…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today issued the following statement on the Department of the Interior’s new draft regulations for oil and natural gas activities in Alaska’s Chukchi and Beaufort…
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee, and Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., today joined with 19 of their Senate colleagues on a bipartisan…