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Shortly after Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) voted against a motion Tuesday to move forward with debate on healthcare legislation, the Trump administration’s Interior secretary reportedly contacted her and Alaskan Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, warning of retaliation.

A sweeping piece of bipartisan energy and natural resources legislation that covers everything from opening more federal lands to sportsmen and better protecting the nation’s pipeline infrastructure from cyber security threats was revived this week and put on the fast-track for consideration before the full Senate.

The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources is scheduled to vote next week on whether to confirm President Trump’s nominees to lead the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Department of Interior (DOI).

As the Obama administration heads into its final days, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is urging the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to rescind proposed mitigation requirements covering the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A).

Two of the top proponents of an omnibus energy bill in the Senate took aim at House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) Wednesday after his office reportedly declared that lawmakers had run out of time to reach a compromise on outstanding issues in the legislation.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) hinted during a hearing this week that the comprehensive energy bill passed last summer through the Committee on Energy & Natural Resources could soon reach the Senate floor for a vote.

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) introduced 17 energy bills — including measures to reauthorize the extraction of natural gas from methane hydrates, standardize the federal definition of condensate, and add de novo review to the Natural Gas Act — ahead of hearings and a rollout of a comprehensive energy bill from the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this summer.

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) introduced 17 energy bills — including measures to reauthorize the extraction of natural gas from methane hydrates, standardize the federal definition of condensate, and add de novo review to the Natural Gas Act — ahead of hearings and a rollout of a comprehensive energy bill from the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this summer.

With unconfirmed reports of a hold being placed on requests to export crude oil condensates by the U.S. Commerce Department, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) on Tuesday continued her call for the agency to loosen restrictions on condensate exports.