10/31/15 Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) Delivers Weekly GOP Address on Energy Policy
In the Weekly Republican Address, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski outlines legislation awaiting floor consideration that would save energy, promote innovation, invest in critical infrastructure and boost America’s energy trade. “Republicans hope that President Obama will start working with Congress on policies like these that can draw bipartisan support,” she says. Alaska’s senior senator also takes the Obama Administration to task for blocking opportunities in her home state and elsewhere to produce American energy for the nation and the world. “The EPA and other agencies are issuing a barrage of regulations that will have limited environmental benefit, but will absolutely reduce our ability to produce energy here at home,” Murkowski says. She adds: “There is no reason why our energy policy should be so divisive. And that’s why I am working hard to forge bipartisan consensus on policies that will keep energy affordable and abundant, even as it becomes cleaner and cleaner.”