The Healy's mission is to monitor the waters of the Arctic. It makes sense to homeport the vessel in its mission area.

We speak about it this way: We're taking this vessel, so to speak, out of its pier, and the destination is the other continent, which is the world title. The journey isn't going to take a week or a month, but we've got to be committed to the journey.

Sen. Stevens continues to advocate for the promise that was made to Alaskans by Congress 25 years ago.

It's a long list of economic benefits that Washington gets from North Slope oil.

Clearly we consider ANWR to be important to our nation's energy supply and our nation's defense.

It makes it so the rest of the West can remain reliant on American products ... rather than going abroad.