Senator Murkowski Questions AG Holder on Prosecutorial Discipline in Stevens Trial

Opening Statement of Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee oversight hearing on the Department of Interior.

U.S. Sen. Mark Begich released the following statement after learning that the National Security Administration (NSA) secretly obtained millions of phone communications from Verizon Wireless users in the United States.

Every summer, Alaska’s glaciers melt and send vast quantities of water gushing through silty gray rivers, past towns and villages and finally into the sea. Some glaciers calve directly into the ocean, instantly losing car-sized chunks of ice and wowing boats full of tourists.