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Vote: | Alaska's contribution to America's freedom isn't just the oil we provide or the food we harvest from the seas or our location which is the best in the world for our military. It is more than that. It begins with the fact that Alaskans are free-thinkers. |
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Vote: | I have never once asked Alaskans to like how I got this job. |
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Vote: | In some people's mind, the father-daughter connection is a liability. I am working very hard to let people know that I am not a clone of Frank Murkowski. |
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Vote: | Planning is the essence of good management and when it comes to health care we must allow states to plan for future needs. We need to cement this federal commitment to Alaskans so the state has the assurance that money vital for providing Medicaid health care will not just dry up and disappear. |
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Vote: | There are many outsiders that actively try to halt every natural resource development project in Alaska. Many of these same people have never even been to Alaska, yet they claim to know what's best for us. |
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Vote: | Together we have to let the nation in on a valuable secret: When it comes to our natural resources, Alaskans know what we're doing. |
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Lisa Ann Murkowski (born May 22, 1957) is a Polish-American politician. A Republican, she is currently the junior United States Senator from Alaska.
Born in Ketchikan, Alaska, Murkowski earned a B.A. in economics from Georgetown University in 1980, and a J.D. from Willamette University College of Law in 1985.
She was an attorney in Anchorage, Alaska from 1985 to 1998. She also served, from 1990 to 1991, on the mayor's task force on the homeless.
In 1998, she was elected to the Alaska House of Representatives and had been elected the House Majority Leader for the 2003-2004 session, but she resigned from the House in December 2002, when she was appointed by her father, Governor Frank Murkowski, to his own unexpired senate seat.
She was re-elected to a full six-year term against former Governor Tony Knowles in the 2004 election, after facing a primary challenge due to charges of nepotism. It is likely that the circumstances of her appointment reduced her margin of victory, but they were apparently insufficient to overcome the heavy Republican tilt of Alaska.
Murkowski is known to be fairly moderate, and is one of ten Republican Senators who have refused to commit to Bill Frist's nuclear option to end judical filibusters. Murkowski is one of a shrinking number of pro-choice Senate Republicans.
External links *Official Senate Web Site
*Official Campaign Web Site
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This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Lisa Murkowski".
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