Editing Lisa Murkowski (section)

==Alaska House of Representatives==
In 1998, Murkowski was elected to the [[Alaska House of Representatives]]. Her District 18 included northeast [[Anchorage, Alaska|Anchorage]], [[Fort Richardson (Alaska)|Fort Richardson]] and [[Elmendorf Air Force Base]] (now [[Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson]], or JBER), and suburban parts of [[Eagle River, Anchorage|Eagle River]]-[[Chugiak, Anchorage|Chugiak]]. In 1999, she introduced legislation establishing a Joint Armed Services Committee. She was reelected in 2000 and, after her district boundaries changed, in 2002. That year she had a conservative primary opponent, [[Nancy Dahlstrom]], who challenged her because Murkowski supported abortion rights and rejected conservative economics. Murkowski won by 56 votes.<ref name=Mitchell>{{cite web |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alaska-governor-girls-rev_b_629592 |title=Alaska Governor Girl's Revenge |website=[[Huffington Post]] |author=Donald Craig Mitchell |date=May 25, 2011 |access-date=February 9, 2023}}</ref><ref name=AJOC>{{cite web|url=http://www.alaskajournal.com/community/2003-01-13/murkowski-picks-nancy-dahlstrom-house-seat#.W7hupGhKiM8|title=Murkowski picks Nancy Dahlstrom for House seat|work=[[Alaska Journal of Commerce]]|date=January 12, 2003|access-date=October 6, 2018|archive-date=December 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191223085931/https://www.alaskajournal.com/community/2003-01-13/murkowski-picks-nancy-dahlstrom-house-seat#.W7hupGhKiM8|url-status=live}}</ref> She was named as House Majority Leader for the 2003–04 legislative session. She resigned her House seat before taking office, due to her appointment by her father to the seat he had vacated in the U.S. Senate, upon his stepping down to assume the Alaska governorship.<ref name=senate>{{cite news|url=http://peninsulaclarion.com/stories/122002/ala_122002alapm0010001.shtml|title=Gov. Murkowski appoints daughter to fill Senate seat|date=December 20, 2002|author=Mike Chambers|agency=Associated Press|website=PeninsulaClarion.com|access-date=December 28, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228224554/http://peninsulaclarion.com/stories/122002/ala_122002alapm0010001.shtml|archive-date=December 28, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> Murkowski sat on the Alaska Commission on Post Secondary Education and chaired both the Labor and Commerce and the Military and Veterans Affairs Committees. After she resigned to join the U.S. Senate, her father appointed Dahlstrom, the District Republican committee's choice, as her replacement.<ref name=AJOC/>