“I will do everything, everything in my power, for as long as I am here, to enable the people of King Cove to receive proper emergency access that the rest of us take for granted.”

American attorney and politician

Lisa Murkowski is an American attorney and politician serving as a United States senator from Alaska since 2002. Born in 1957, she is the first woman to represent Alaska in Congress and has become a prominent Republican voice in the Senate. She represents Alaska as its senior senator and became dean of the state’s congressional delegation after the death of Don Young. Her public record is tied to long service in federal office and to the role she has played as one of the chamber’s most senior Republican women.