In a Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the DHS budget request 2016, Senator Murkowski briefly questioned the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on the agency’s Arctic commitment before leaving for another hearing. Murkowski pointed out at the start of her statement and question that the U.S. has only one full-strength icebreaker, […]
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told his nation and the world on Friday that his country will honor its pledges in the historic agreement on Iran’s nuclear ambitions as long as the other participants in the deal honor theirs. Calling today a “day that will remain in the historical memory of the Iranian nation,” Rouhani told Iran […]
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, criticized the Obama administration’s lack of consultation with Alaska in developing its draft 2017-2022 outer continental shelf (OCS) oil and natural gas leasing program (DPP) for Alaska in comments to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). “The fact that the president’s moratorium withdrawing some 9.8 million acres of waters […]
ANCHORAGE: In Monday’s address to a joint session of the Alaska Legislature, Dan Sullivan affirmed his stance against the Convention on the Law of the Sea. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, “The law of the sea is a body of customs, treaties, and international agreements by which governments maintain order, productivity, and […]