
"[W]e have a problem here," Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Republican, says at a hearing about the Obama administration's record on energy production. (Associated Press)

"There are a number of statements that are either inaccurate or simply not well-considered" in the report on the postal "Alaska Bypass" program, said Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Republican. (Associated Press)

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Republican, is likely to vote on issues keeping in mind constituency priorities more than party ones. (Associated Press)

Associated Press photographs Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Republican, is seen here campaigning in Anchorage on Nov. 1, the day before the election in which she ran a write-in campaign. She won a state Supreme Court ruling on Wednesday.

A security officer checks Joe Miller as he enters the Dimond Courthouse in Juneau, Alaska, on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010, for his court case against the State of Alaska in the U.S. Senate race with Sen. Lisa Murkowski. (AP Photo/The Juneau Empire, Michael Penn)

In this Dec. 1, 2010, file photo, Scott Kendall, an attorney for Lisa Murkowski's U.S. Senate campaign, speaks to Ketchikan Superior Court Judge William Carey via teleconference in Juneau, Alaska. (AP Photo/The Juneau Empire, Michael Penn, File)

FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2010, file photo, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin campaigns for Senate candidate Joe Miller, left in Anchorage, Alaska. Sen. Lisa Murkowski's stunning write-in victory was a political poke in the eye to Alaska's other favorite daughter, Sarah Palin. (AP Photo/Rob Stapleton)

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski greets supporters at the Laborers International Hall, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010 in Anchorage, Alaska (AP Photo/Michael Dinneen)

United States Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), center, addresses a joyous crowd as her victorious write-in campaign is announced in Anchorage, Alaska Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010. Murkowski is the first Senate candidate in more than 50 years to win a write-in campaign. (AP Photo/Michael Dinneen)