Murkowski launches big Alaska bills whose days are numbered

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (File photo by Skip Gray, 360 North)U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski this morning brought some of her most controversial Alaska bills to the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which she chairs. There are only a few legislative days left before Congress takes a recess for the election. The controversial bills stand almost no chance of passing in this Congress. But some, she hopes, will pack a punch anyway.
The most ambitious of the bills Murkowski brought to the committee re