{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["http://www.murkowski.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=887c0b2b-22ef-4a2b-a546-e8a52d05a6c4", "Murkowski to I.H.S.: Alaskas Patience Has Worn Out", "2014-11-19", "2014", "2014-11", "Republican", "House", "AK", "Lisa Murkowski", "M001153", "www.murkowski.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "11.19.14\n\t\t\t Murkowski to I.H.S.: Alaska\u2019s Patience Has Worn Out \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tSenator Lisa Murkowski today sternly informed the Acting Director of the Indian Health Service and Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention at the U.S. Department of Justice that neither she nor Alaskans will accept underfunding of critical public safety clinics in rural Alaska any longer, that Alaska is past being \u201cpolite\u201d and will now demand the same treatment and resources that Native Americans receive in the Lower 48.\r\nMurkowski also repeated her commitment to repeal the amendment to the Violence Against Women Act that she and Senator Mark Begich originally co-sponsored in 2012 to limit the expansion of tribal authority to issue protective orders over non-members of a tribe. Importantly, the State of Alaska is currently honoring tribal protective orders and sending Alaska State troopers to enforce them.\r\nFunding for Village Built Clinics \u2013 \u201cWe are going to demand you help us.\u201d\r\nSenator Murkowski challenged I.H.S. Acting Director Dr. Yvette Roubideaux on the topic of funding for village clinics\u2013 the backbone of the rural health system, saying:\r\n\u201cWe\u2019re concerned that we\u2019re not getting any support from the administration on ensuring that our village health clinics are adequately funded. We have to have these instruments in place\u2026You have got to help us with these village built clinics. You have got to help us. Yes?\u201d\r\nWhen I.H.S. Director Roubideaux began to explain her agency\u2019s commitment, Murkowski quickly interrupted her, saying:\r\n\u201cWe haven\u2019t seen that through the budgets put forth by this administration. We have seen zero help there. We need you to help us, and I\u2019m going to be very, very direct with that. Because we are going to demand that you help us. We have been very polite, and we have waited a long time, and in the meantime we are losing what we have built.\u201d\r\n\r\n(Murkowski: We have been polite, but we will demand more from the government. \u2013 Click to watch.)\r\nMurkowski also indicated to Dr. Roubideaux that she plans to be far more proactive and aggressive on commitments moving forward, since she is poised to become the Chairman of the Interior Appropriations Committee \u2013 which has jurisdiction of the I.H.S. budget and priorities.\r\nVAWA Provision Repeal\r\nDuring her opening remarks, Murkowski spoke of the pride and resiliency of Alaska Natives and Native Americans who stoically face harsher realities than most Americans, before turning to the information that had been shared by Senator Begich: his intent to alter the Safe Families, Safe Villages bill they co-sponsored in 2013, to only include a repeal of the VAWA Provision.\u00a0 Murkowski has supported a repeal of this provision originally co-sponsored by both Senators in the 2012 version of the VAWA bill that never become law.\r\nIn today\u2019s hearing, she said of Senator Begich\u2019s plan to repeal Section 910 of VAWA:\r\n\u201cTalking about the Village Safe Families Act we\u2019ve been working on, [Senator Mark Begich] has mentioned there has been resistance on the Republican side. That is correct. There are those waiting to hear comments from the Department of Justice [that would implement that law in its entirety]. We\u2019re still waiting. \r\nI\u2019ve committed to him and to Alaska that one of the things we can do is to repeal section 910 of VAWA, an absolutely Alaska-specific item and an effort to go a long way to make sure there is equity for those most vulnerable.\u00a0 I\u2019m happy to look at his revamped version of our bill.\u201d\r\n\r\n(Murkowski backs repeal of VAWA Amendment \u2013 Click to view.)\r\nIn an effort to pursue all opportunities to repeal Section 910, Senator Murkowski has also introduced stand-alone legislation to do so.\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n    \n    \n\t\n\t\n    \n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\n    \n\t\n     \n\t\n \n\t\n    \n    \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t  \n\t\t\n\t\n\t  \n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t \n\t\t\n\t\t\tPrint\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tEmail\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tTweet", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["http://www.murkowski.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=887c0b2b-22ef-4a2b-a546-e8a52d05a6c4"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.40644090808928, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}