Energy

Floor Speech

ENERGY -- (Senate - September 25, 2008)

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Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I am pleased to be here to follow up on the comments from the chairman of the Energy Committee.

As one of the senior members on the committee, I have had an opportunity to work with him and Ranking Member Domenici on many of the issues he has talked about, as we have tried to advance energy policies for the country. One of the things we recognize on the committee historically is there has been a very good, strong, bipartisan relationship, working together to advance policy goals. The point has been made that perhaps politics has intervened as we have tried to advance some policies of late. I would like to think that as we begin a new Congress next year, with the initiative before us that this country needs and deserves a good, comprehensive energy policy that works for the Nation, that gets us to a point that allows for a level of energy security for us, that we will do so in a way that is cooperative, collaborative, and that allows us to move the technologies and advance the infrastructure that is necessary, that allows us to have policies in place that not only provide for increased domestic production but renewables and alternatives, with a focus on conservation--truly an energy policy that works. I look forward to working with the chairman in advancing these goals.

I thank the Chair.

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