Senators grounded while Sec. Carter visits state without them

A disappointed Sen. Murkowski in an image from her video.
Alaska’s two U.S. senators were supposed to be at Fort Wainwright today with Defense Secretary Ash Carter. Instead, due to mechanical troubles, they were reduced to making videos describing what they would have said, if they’d had the opportunity to talk to him about keeping troops at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski filmed hers from an unadorned office cubicle.