Editing Lisa Murkowski (section)

{{Short description|American lawyer and politician (born 1957)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Lisa Murkowski
| image               = Lisa Murkowski official photo.jpg
| caption             = Official portrait, 2017
| jr/sr               = United States Senator
| state               = [[Alaska]]
| alongside           = [[Dan Sullivan (U.S. senator)|Dan Sullivan]]
| appointer           = 
| term_start          = December 20, 2002
| term_end            = 
| predecessor         = [[Frank Murkowski]]
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{{Infobox officeholder |embed=yes
| office1             = Chair of the [[United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs|Senate Indian Affairs Committee]]
| term_start1         = January 3, 2025
| term_end1           = 
| predecessor1        = [[Brian Schatz]]
| successor1          = 
| office2             = Vice Chair of the [[United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs|Senate Indian Affairs Committee]]
| term_start2         = February 3, 2021
| term_end2           = January 3, 2025
| predecessor2        = [[Tom Udall]]
| successor2          = [[Brian Schatz]]
| term_start3         = January 3, 2007
| term_end3           = January 3, 2009
| predecessor3        = [[Byron Dorgan]]
| successor3          = [[John Barrasso]]
| office4             = Chair of the [[United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources|Senate Energy Committee]]
| term_start4         = January 3, 2015
| term_end4           = February 3, 2021
| predecessor4        = [[Mary Landrieu]]
| successor4          = [[Joe Manchin]]
| office5             = Ranking Member of the [[United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources|Senate Energy Committee]]
| term_start5         = January 3, 2009
| term_end5           = January 3, 2015
| predecessor5        = [[Pete Domenici]]
| successor5          = [[Maria Cantwell]]
| office6             = [[Republican Conference Vice-Chair of the United  States Senate|Vice Chair of the Senate Republican Conference]]
| leader6             = [[Mitch McConnell]]
| term_start6         = June 17, 2009
| term_end6           = September 17, 2010
| predecessor6        = [[John Thune]]
| successor6          = [[John Barrasso]]
}}
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| state_house7        = Alaska
| district7           = 14th
| term_start7         = January 19, 1999
| term_end7           = December 20, 2002
| predecessor7        = [[Terry Martin (Alaska politician)|Terry Martin]]
| successor7          = [[Vic Kohring]]
| birth_name          = Lisa Ann Murkowski
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1957|5|22}}
| birth_place         = [[Ketchikan]], [[Territory of Alaska|Alaska Territory]], U.S.
| death_date          = 
| death_place         = 
| party               = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| spouse              = {{marriage|Verne Martell|1987}}
| children            = 2
| relatives           = [[Frank Murkowski]] (father)
| education           = [[Georgetown University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br/>[[Willamette University]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]])
| signature           = LisaMurkowskiSignature.png
| website             = {{URL|murkowski.senate.gov|Senate website}}
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|filename    = Lisa Murkowski on her support for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.ogg
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|description = Murkowski supporting the [[Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act]]<br/>Recorded August 1, 2021}}
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'''Lisa Ann Murkowski''' ({{IPAc-en|m|ər|ˈ|k|aʊ|s|k|i}} {{respell|mər|KOW|skee}}; born May 22, 1957) is an American attorney and politician serving as the [[Seniority in the United States Senate|senior]] [[United States senator]] from the state of [[Alaska]], having held the seat since 2002. She is the first woman to represent Alaska in the Senate and is the Senate's second-most senior [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] woman. Murkowski became dean of [[United States congressional delegations from Alaska|Alaska's congressional delegation]] upon Representative [[Don Young]]'s death.

Murkowski is the daughter of former U.S. senator and [[governor of Alaska]] [[Frank Murkowski]]. She was appointed to the Senate by her father, who resigned his seat in December 2002 to become Alaska's governor. Murkowski became the first Alaskan-born member of Congress and completed her father's unexpired Senate term, which ended in January 2005. Before her appointment to the Senate, she had been a member of the [[Alaska House of Representatives]] since 1999. Murkowski ran for and won a full term in [[2004 United States Senate election in Alaska|2004]] with 48% of the vote. After losing the [[2010 United States Senate election in Alaska#Republican primary|2010 Republican primary]] to [[Tea Party movement|Tea Party]] candidate [[Joe Miller (Alaska politician)|Joe Miller]], she ran as a [[write-in candidate]] and defeated both Miller and Democrat Scott McAdams in the [[2010 United States Senate election in Alaska|general election]]. Murkowski was reelected in [[2016 United States Senate election in Alaska|2016]] and again in [[2022 United States Senate election in Alaska|2022]]. She was vice chair of the [[Senate Republican Conference]] from 2009 to 2010 and chair of the [[United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources|Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee]] from 2015 to 2021. She has served as vice chair of the [[United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs|Senate Indian Affairs Committee]] since 2021.

Murkowski is often described as one of the Senate's most [[Moderate Republicans (modern United States)|moderate Republicans]] and a [[swing vote]]. According to [[Roll Call|''CQ Roll Call'']], she voted with President [[Barack Obama]]'s position 72.3% of the time in 2013; she was one of only two Republicans to vote with Obama over 70% of the time. She opposed [[Brett Kavanaugh]]'s Supreme Court nomination in 2018 and supported [[Ketanji Brown Jackson]]'s Supreme Court nomination in 2022. In 2021, she was one of seven Republican senators to vote to convict [[Donald Trump]] of [[Sedition|incitement of insurrection]] in his [[Second impeachment trial of Donald Trump|second impeachment trial]]; the [[Alaska Republican Party]] censured her for that vote.