Sen. Lisa Murkowski

In D.C. forum, Alaskans urge action on Bush energy crisis

Lawmakers, energy experts and Native leaders said Thursday that rural Alaska's oppressive energy costs are a dire problem with elusive solutions.

Senate rejects Murkowski amendment on genetically modified salmon

The U.S. Senate has rejected an amendment by Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski that would have required a comprehensive study of genetically engineered salmon before it can be sold to consumers.

Alaska senators want more review of genetically modified salmon

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski is proposing to have the environmental and economic impacts of genetically modified fish studied before the fish are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Alaska senators seek to delay post office closings

Alaska U.S. Sens. Mark Begich and Lisa Murkowski are among those who've written the postmaster general seeking an extension of a moratorium on postal facility closings until a bill intended to reform the Postal Service is enacted.

Amendment lets Alaska tribes keep restraining-order powers

The U.S. Senate passed the Violence Against Women reauthorization act Thursday with a last minute amendment that lets Alaska tribes continue to issue domestic violence protective orders but excludes them from powers given to Lower 48 tribes to criminally prosecute offenders.

Begich breaks with Democrats, Obama on oil tax breaks

President Obama says Congress should end billions of dollars in tax breaks for the global oil companies, but Sen. Mark Begich has broken with nearly every other Senate Democrat to oppose the idea.

Senate women lead fight to expand domestic violence law

U.S. Senate Democrats -- aided by moderate Republicans including Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski -- on Thursday battled conservative Republicans who say they don't want to expand an 18-year-old federal law that created a national strategy to prevent domestic violence against women.

In wake of birth control vote, senators debate Murkowski role

Some say Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski may be a natural heir to the centrist role played by retiring Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe at a time when their party is hurting for female leaders. Others say she first needs to show more decisiveness and consistency.

Julia O'Malley: If Murkowski is moderate, her votes should be too

Murkowski questions expense of defending Stevens prosecutors

The U.S. Justice Department has so far paid $1.8 million for private attorneys to represent seven prosecutors facing a criminal contempt investigation in the botched case against the late Sen. Ted Stevens, and members of the Senate are saying it's inappropriate.

JULIA O'MALLEY

If Murkowski calls herself moderate, her votes should be too

Back from Washington, D.C., for the start of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race, Sen. Lisa Murkowski learned the hard way not to get between women and birth control. She said she now regrets her support for a measure that would have allowed employers to opt out of providing birth control or other health insurance coverage required by the 2010 health-care law for moral reasons.

Murkowski to Salazar: Clean up legacy wells

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski had tough words recently for Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on the subject of "legacy wells" drilled by the federal government on the North Slope.

Murkowski sides with Republicans on birth control

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who in the past has broken with the Republican Party on women's rights issues, is among those fighting the president's stand that all women should get insurance coverage for free birth control.

Obama joins in assailing Limbaugh for calling student 'slut'

Murkowski tells lawmakers, 'ANWR will happen' -- but not soon

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski says oil drilling will happen in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but people shouldn't hold their breath waiting for it.

Murkowski economic aide gets tourism issues too

Sen. Lisa Murkowski's economic policy aide, Miles Baker, is taking on tourism-related issues too.

Murkowski names tourism aide

Sen. Lisa Murkowski's economic policy aide, Miles Baker, is taking on tourism-related issues too.

Former fisheries official gets prison for fishing violations

A former aide to Sen. Lisa Murkowski who worked as a commercial fisherman while sitting on the council that regulates fishing off Alaska's coast was sentenced Tuesday to five months in prison for falsifying his own fishing reports.

37 nominated to attend US service academies next year

Sen. Lisa Murkowski announced that she has nominated 37 young Alaskans for appointment to the U.S. military service academies for the class of 2016.

Government recommends less prison time for Fuglvog

The government is recommending five months in prison for a former fisheries aide to Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Arne Fuglvog pleaded guilty in August to falsely reporting where he caught sablefish intended for interstate commerce.

Alaska delegation vows to resist base closures

Members of the Alaska delegation and others in Congress are vowing to resist a recommendation from the Pentagon to close military bases around the country.

Alaska politicians pledge to oppose military base cutbacks

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's announcement that the Pentagon will seek new rounds of military base closures drew a swift response from Alaskans who watched a similar process nearly gut Eielson Air Force Base in 2005.

Pentagon outlines budget-cut strategies

Bipartisan seating set for State of the Union speech

The partisan atmosphere in Congress has become so poisonous it's reached the point where the Alaska delegation and others are touting the fact they'll be sitting with a member of the opposite party when the president gives his State of the Union speech today.

Obama attacks income disparity in State of Union excerpts