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U.S. SENATE

Lisa Murkowski

RepublicanAlaskaCurrently serving

Sworn into the Senate on Source

What they said 15

Their stated policy positions and commitments, with quotes and links to the original sources.

All statements (15)Campaign (1)After election (5)In office (9)
While serving · Original date not established
Agriculture & food

Maintain funding for fisheries research and management

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Lisa Murkowski supports maintaining federal funding for fisheries and marine mammal research and management. She identifies Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska surveys, emergency fishery disaster funds, salmon agreements, and the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund as Alaska priorities. She says this funding supports salmon runs that commercial, subsistence, and recreational users depend on.

Context: The page describes her work and priorities but does not specify funding amounts.

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Education

Support Native youth and Native language preservation

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Murkowski supports efforts to improve Native children’s well-being and preserve Native languages. Her work has included legislation establishing a commission to identify challenges facing Native children in Alaska and across the country, and advocacy for Alaska Native education through her Senate committee role.

Context: The passage describes prior legislation and advocacy, without specifying a new future proposal.

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Public safety & firearmsCivil rights & justice

Improve the federal response to violence against Indigenous people

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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.

Sources & original wording
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.
Original date
Original statement date has not been established. The capture date is not the statement date.
Collected
11/11/2026
Source: Lisa Murkowski: Alaska Natives & Rural Alaska Read the original source
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Transportation & infrastructureEnergy & environment

Modernize infrastructure through federal investment

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Lisa Murkowski supports a bipartisan infrastructure bill that would invest $550 billion in new spending over five years to upgrade roads, bridges, rail, ferries, ports, airports, energy systems, water systems and broadband. The bill also covers electric-grid resilience, minerals supply chains, permitting reform and wildfire mitigation, and is described as providing the new spending without raising taxes. Murkowski presents economic growth, job creation and pressure against inflation as intended benefits.

Context: The passage describes the bill but does not identify its enactment status.

While serving · Original date not established
Energy & environment

Raise attention to Arctic issues

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Lisa Murkowski identifies raising awareness of critical Arctic issues among senior government officials as a top priority. She points to the loss of seasonal sea ice and increased interest in Arctic shipping and energy development as reasons for that focus.

Context: Original statement date not established. Source collected on November 10, 2026.