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Wednesday, November 06, 2002
Frank Murkowski (R)
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A longtime Alaska political titan responsible for bringing home billions of dollars in federal aid since he first took office in 1980, U.S. Sen. Frank Murkowski beat out what appeared to be a stiff challenge from Democratic Lt. Gov. Fran Ulmer. Murkowski, who turns 70 next month, used his position as chairman and then ranking Republican on the Senate's Energy and Natural Resources Committee to promote oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a policy he intends to pursue from Juneau. As the campaign focused increasingly on the state's struggling, resource based economy, Murkowski made further overtures to the oil industry, backing new projects and promising companies not to raise taxes.
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