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Lisa Murkowski
categories: Speeches, State of State
Speech to Alaskan Legislature - April 25, 2003
April 25, 2003
Good morning. It is great to be here. Speaker Kott, Senate President Therriault, members and friends. Thank you for the invitation to speak today. It's great to be home in Alaska. And it is great to be in Juneau, among so many good friends and former colleagues.Coming into this chamber, I was half tempted to slide right into my old seat between Rep. Gruenberg and Rep. Fate. I was comfortable here. I enjoyed my time in the State House, and I learned a lot about state government and the legislative […]
Lisa Murkowski
Speeches
Balanced Energy Development - June 9, 2005
June 9, 2005
Legislation recently cleared by the U.S. Senate Energy Committee provides a balanced blueprint to both increase domestic production of energy from nonrenewable and renewable sources and to promote efficiency, conservation and the new energy technologies that will light our future. The bipartisan bill could lead to production of an additional 53 billion barrels of domestic oil, trillions of cubic feet of natural gas and pioneer the technology to produce gas from methane hydrates, which could fuel all our energy needs for a thousand years. The bill provides incentives to utilize […]
Lisa Murkowski
categories: Floor Speech - U.S. Senate, Speeches
Alaskan Constitutional Convention 50th Anniversary - Nov. 8, 2005
November 8, 2005
Mr. President, I thank my colleague and I, too, thank the Senator from Virginia for allowing us to speak today on the 50th anniversary of the convening of the Alaska Constitutional Convention. Although is has not quite been 50 years since Alaska’s statehood, it was half a century ago today that 55 delegates from around the State met to debate what would become the Alaska Constitution. Prior to the Constitutional Convention, the Convention’s secretary, Thomas Stewart, traveled around the country for six months looking at other states’ constitutions and how […]
Lisa Murkowski
Speeches
A Better Prescription Plan for Seniors - April 30, 2003
August 30, 2003
When President Lyndon Johnson created Medicare - the nation's health insurance program for the elderly -- he said, "No longer will older Americans be denied the healing miracle of modern medicine." Yet 38 years later, the lack of a comprehensive prescription drug benefit does, in fact, deny the healing miracle of modern medicine that was promised by the President. As Alaska's 44,000 seniors know, one of the miracles of medicine today is the dazzling array of drugs that do everything from mitigate the pain of arthritis to fight the terrible […]
Donna Christensen
Speeches
Health as the Lynchpin to Society - Jan. 1, 2000
January 1, 2000
Good evening and thank you for joining us at this Health Forum that focuses on health as the lynchpin to society. Here in the Caribbean, we have a saying that speaks volumes to the importance of wellness in everything that we do. "As long as I have my health," we tell each other when talking about whatever other challenges we may face. We instinctively know that all else will fall in place, if our health is good. So we gather today to speak about those things that remain as a […]
Donna Christensen
Speeches
St. Kitts Speech - Jan. 1, 2000
January 1, 2000
Thank you, the honorable Jacinth Henry Martin, for that kind introduction. Good evening: Prime Minister, the honorable Denzil L Douglas, Ministers of government and members of the ambassadorial corps; President of the Labour Women's core group, Senator Marcella Liburd; Members of the Labour Women core group Friends. What a pleasure and honor it is to have been asked to be here, and to join you in this timely and important forum. It has been some time since I was in St. Kitts with the Caribbean Studies Association—perhaps about 20 years […]
Donna Christensen
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
Vernal Cave - Aug. 5, 2003
August 5, 2003
Good afternoon, to my community medicine and public health family. It is truly an honor to have been invited to give the 6th annual Black physicians and patients empowerment luncheon and to join the distinguished list of persons who have preceded me. Today is only superseded by the very great honor of having been the recipient of the Vernal Cave Medical Humanitarian award three years ago. Not being able to be here in person to receive, it I want to thank my sisters, Dr. Lucy Perez, and Dr. Averette Mhoon […]
Ellen Tauscher
Speeches
A Safer Nation - Nov. 7, 2002
November 7, 2002
A year after the terrorist attacks against the United States, this forum offers a timely evaluation of what has been done to make our nation safer and what challenges remain. You have a number of great speakers who are getting into the details of the challenges facing specific sectors. Instead of giving you more facts and figures, I’d like to spend my time with you today sharing some observations that I hope will provide fodder for your discussions. As a member of the House of Representatives, I have spent my […]
Ellen Tauscher
categories: Keynote Address, Speeches
The Global War on Terrorism: Round II - March 31, 2005
March 31, 2005
Thank you, General Meigs, Dean Mitchell Wallerstein and Bill Banks, for inviting me. I am a great admirer of the Maxwell School and of Syracuse University. And having grown up in New Jersey – the cradle of civilization – I always enjoy opportunities to visit New York. I am very fond of New York having spent several years, during my youth, working on Wall Street. Currently, I serve on the Board of West Point and get to visit the campus each year. And it is always wonderful to see my […]
Ellen Tauscher
Speeches
Remarks to the Energy Facilities Contractor's Group - June 9, 2004
June 9, 2004
Thank you, Dennis, for your introduction and for your invaluable work here with the Energy Facilities Contractors Group and at Livermore Lab. Thank you, Tom Stephens and all of the members of EFCOG here today, for having me here a second time. Just a year ago, I spoke before the EFCOG and discussed challenges to nonproliferation and my recommendations for meeting them. I raised concerns about the direction that the Bush administration was taking on nuclear policy and outlined an alternate path that I believe would better protect the American […]