position · 2026
Improve the federal response to violence against Indigenous people
Lisa Murkowski supports a stronger federal response to missing, murdered, and trafficked Indigenous people. She backed measures that improve coordination, develop best practices, and create an advisory committee on violent crime. She has also supported funding for cold-case investigations, background checks, equipment, and forensic training.
Context: The passage describes enacted laws and past appropriations activity; it does not state a new specific future action.
In their own words
Both bills aim to combat the epidemic by improving the federal government’s response through increased coordination, development of best practices, and creation of an advisory committee on violent crime.
The source
Lisa Murkowski: Alaska Natives & Rural Alaska
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Retrieved: 11/11/2026