[content id=”79272″] Anchorage, Alaska – The Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) welcomes U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski’s (R-Alaska) comprehensive draft legislative package aimed at advancing the well-being and future opportunities of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children. This draft legislation builds on the transformative recommendations of “The Way Forward” report issued by the Alyce […]
Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) last week released the following statement on H.R. 1, the budget reconciliation bill: “This was one of the hardest votes I have taken during my time in the Senate. “My goal throughout the reconciliation process has been to make a bad bill better for Alaska, and in […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Senator Murkowski and Republicans in the United States Senate voted to endanger public health, kill clean energy jobs and their economic benefits, and raise costs for working families and small businesses—all to hand big tax breaks to billionaires and corporate polluters. Despite widespread public opposition to the many dangers of the bill, […]
Sen. Lisa Murkowski was the deciding vote to pass Republicans’ massive social safety net cuts through the Senate. She said she didn’t like the bill, but voted for it anyway after getting Alaska exempted from some of its worst harms. By the thinnest possible margin, the U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to pass a budget that includes the […]
