Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, stopped by a Daily Caller reporter in the halls and asked about the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nominees, said she is not going to commit to any of them at this point and that the confirmation hearings were just getting started. It’s “premature,” she said, although in a hearing for Energy secretary nominee this week, she seemed to be enthusiastic about Chris Wright.
“I love the fact that you’re a self-described energy geek,” she said to Wright during his Energy Committee hearing.
Murkowski said she being deliberative and is now doing what she does best: “Which is learning a lot.”
In 2021, Murkowski voted in favor of 19 of President Joe Biden’s nominees out of the first 21 confirmations that came before the Senate by March of that year.
For example, she was the only Republican senator to vote for Vanita Gupta as associate attorney general.
Opposing Gupta were senators like Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who said at the time that Gupta was a liar: “Ms. Gupta has been misleading and deceptive in many of her answers to our questions on many important issues like qualified immunity, the death penalty, things like defund the police, but in the case of legalization of drugs, including drugs like heroin, she’s frankly lied to each of you and the whole Committee.”
Gupta, a hard leftist ideologue, lasted from 2021 until February of 2024 in the Biden Administration.
Murkowski also confirmed the Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine, who has spent the past four years pushing gender mutilation of children as a government policy.
