Lisa Murkowski
Republican · AK · U.S. Senate
Bio
Lisa Ann Murkowski is an American attorney and politician serving as the 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 U.S. Congress and is the Senate's second-most senior Republican woman. Murkowski became dean of Alaska's congressional delegation upon Representative Don Young's death.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 23.6 years
- First took office
- 2003 (5 terms)
- Seniority
- 21 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 69
- Senate class
- 3 · senior senator
- daughter of Frank Hughes Murkowski
- Anchorage, AK · 907-271-3735
- Juneau, AK · 907-586-7277
- Ketchikan, AK · 907-225-6880
- Soldotna, AK · 907-262-4220
- Wasilla, AK · 907-376-7665
- Fairbanks, AK · 907-456-0233
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $1.5M – $3.9M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $1.5M – $3.9M
- Since 2018
- +$1.2M
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Lisa Murkowski's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
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Caucuses & committees
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Committees
- Senate Committee on Appropriationscenter · 29 members
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resourcescenter · 20 members
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensionscenter · 23 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Murkowski's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Right-wing activist's bizarre Murkowski trap dismantled point by pointA pro-Trump right-wing activist pulled an undercover stunt to try to prove voter fraud vulnerability in Alaska — but it didn't go the way he hoped.James O'Keefe, a provocateur best known for his operations to try to trick government officials or members of li…
Raw Story · August 21, 2026
Nolte: Nepo-Senator Lisa Murkowski’s Office Responds to James O’Keefe Journalism with Legal ThreatsUseless Nepo-Senator Lisa Murkowski (RINO-AK) is threatening James O’Keefe with legal action for committing an act of journalism. The post Nolte: Nepo-Senator Lisa Murkowski’s Office Responds to James O’Keefe Journalism with Legal Threats appeared first on Br…
Breitbart News · August 21, 2026
Trump admin 'power struggle' prompts bitter attacks from fuming GOP lawmakersHouse Republicans have reached their limit with President Donald Trump overriding their funding decisions and now they are openly challenging the administration.According to Politico, there is a "power struggle" underway between Republican House and Senate Ap…
Raw Story · August 21, 2026
ICE Funding Approved by Susan Collins and Trump GOP to Deliver Electric Shock Gloves to Agents NationwideAs Mainers continue to target Sen. Susan Collins' office with protests following a recent killing by an immigration agent, new reporting shows how some of the $70 billion she and her GOP colleagues gave to President Donald Trump's immigration agencies is bein…
Common Dreams · August 12, 2026
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