During her first term in Alaska’s House of Representatives in the late 1990s, Lisa Murkowski’s sister gave her a gift for Christmas: a T-shirt reading “Knee-jerk moderate.” It was meant as a tease, ...

Lisa Murkowski is the senior United States senator from Alaska and the first woman to represent the state in Congress. Murkowski is recognized as a moderate Republican and a key swing vote, frequently ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON ― Senate Republicans had to make Alaska-friendly changes to their bill cutting taxes and Medicaid in order to win over ...

The fate of President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda was in Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s hands – and she used that leverage to force a series of changes that will deliver more federal dollars to her ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Sen. Lisa Murkowski about the possible loss of SNAP benefits due to the shutdown. Tomorrow - November 1 - is the day that federal food assistance will be drastically cut ...

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A prominent Republican Senator who is not like the others…. MURKOWSKI: It was something that political history said was impossible. For all intents and purposes, I was political roadkill. Alaska ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sen. Lisa Murkowski leaves the Senate chamber on June 30 in Washington, DC. - J. Scott Applewhite/AP The fate of President Donald ...