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Campaign positions remain attributed. Official actions are shown separately, with narrow relationship labels and limits.
Campaign positions
No position was found. The Division of Elections candidate list gives only his name, party registration, address and telephone number; he filed no statement for the official election pamphlet, the list names no website or email for him, and the Federal Election Commission shows no campaign committee for him this cycle. He did not answer the 2026 voter guides of four Alaska newsrooms or iVoterGuide.
Her campaign says she will restore the VA clinical workforce, expand mental health care for veterans, reverse cuts to food and housing programs veterans use, create a transition stipend of up to $2,000 a month for two years after separation, and keep supporting the Major Richard Star Act.
His campaign says he has delivered the largest military and Coast Guard build-up in Alaska's history and credits him with the Coast Guard funding in the 2025 reconciliation law. He sits on the Armed Services and Veterans' Affairs committees.
No position on the military, the Coast Guard or veterans was found in his campaign site as read on September 23, 2026 (home page, two press releases and six posts, including his answers to two voter-guide questionnaires) and his election pamphlet statement. On foreign aid, his questionnaire answers support increased and consistent aid to Ukraine and carefully appropriated aid to Israel.
Evidence timeline
official action
His campaign says he helped secure the historic $25 billion investment in the Coast Guard, including $300 million for the port infrastructure to homeport the icebreaker Storis in Juneau. Section 40001 of the 2025 reconciliation act, Public Law 119-21, which he voted for (roll call 372), provides $24,593,500,000 for the Coast Guard, of which $300,000,000 is “for homeporting of the existing polar icebreaker commissioned into service in 2025”. The law does not name the vessel or Juneau. The Coast Guard's spending plan, printed in a Senate hearing record of January 29, 2026, lists “CGC Storis Homeport ($300 million)” for waterfront work in Juneau. The section sits in the law's Commerce Committee title, and he chaired that committee's Coast Guard subcommittee in 2025. At the 2026 hearing, the Coast Guard's Commandant thanked him for his support for the $300 million. Limit: The dollar figures match the law, and he voted for it. His subcommittee role and the Commandant's thanks back “helped secure”, but the record does not show who wrote the section.
official action
Her campaign says she delivered over $150 million for Alaska military bases: $107 million for Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, $34 million for housing at Fort Wainwright, $9.5 million for housing at Eielson Air Force Base, and $6.1 million for Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. All four figures are in the military construction table, section 4601, of the Fiscal Year 2024 defense authorization, Public Law 118-31, whose final version she voted for (roll call 723): $107,500,000 to extend a runway at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson and $34,000,000 to complete enlisted unaccompanied housing at Fort Wainwright, both in the President's budget request; and $9,500,000 to plan and design a permanent-party dormitory at Eielson Air Force Base and $6,100,000 to plan and design a precision-guided-missile complex at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, both added by Congress. The four sum to $157,100,000. Neither added amount was in the bill the House passed in July 2023. The same two projects, at the same amounts, were funded in that year's military construction appropriations as Senate congressionally directed spending: the Senate Appropriations Committee's report names Senator Lisa Murkowski as the requester of both, and the final explanatory statement, printed in the Congressional Record on March 5, 2024, lists her in its Senate column with no House requester. On those appropriations she voted Nay on the House's own bill in July 2023 (roll call 380) and Yea on the final package in March 2024 (roll call 64). Limit: The amounts are real and she voted for the laws that carry them. The section 4601 figures are authorizations, which permit spending; the appropriations provide it. The published record names who asked for each amount, and it is not her: two were in the President's request, and the two Congress added were requested in the Senate by Senator Murkowski, with the House requester column blank. So the record shows the money arriving in bills she voted for, not that she delivered it. Whether “delivered” still earns this label is put to the owner.
campaign position
In a campaign ad she says she pushed through the largest pay increase for soldiers in decades; her campaign elsewhere puts it at 5.2 per cent. The defense authorization for Fiscal Year 2024, Public Law 118-31, sets no rate of basic pay: its basic-pay subtitle has three sections, on parental leave for reservists, reserve training pay, and pay during an absence. When a year's law sets no figure, the raise follows the standing formula in 37 U.S.C. 1009, tied to the Employment Cost Index. On the Act itself she voted Nay on the House's version on July 14, 2023 (roll call 328) and Yea on the final conference report on December 14, 2023 (roll call 723). The next year's act, for Fiscal Year 2025, Public Law 118-159, did set basic pay by statute: its section 601 put new monthly basic pay tables into effect on April 1, 2025, and its funding table carries $1.6 billion for a junior enlisted pay increase. She voted Aye on the House's version on June 14, 2024 (roll call 279) and Yea on the final bill on December 11, 2024 (roll call 500). Limit: The Fiscal Year 2024 law has no pay provision for her, or anyone, to have pushed through: that year's raise, the 5.2 per cent her campaign cites, came from a formula already in statute. The Fiscal Year 2025 law did set pay rates by statute and she voted for it at both stages, so the ad's words could be read to cover that raise, though her campaign's own gloss does not mention it. Her campaign's fact-check page quotes her July 2023 explanation of the Nay, a vote against Republican amendments added to the House bill: “We shouldn’t be pitting pay raises that they [military members] deserve against the reproductive freedoms that they also deserve.” A vote shows support for a bill; whether any member “pushed through” a raise is not something a vote can settle.
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