and disapproves of entitlement programs in their current form. Ayotte is married to a former A-10 pilot who flew combat missions in the Iraq war. Her husband now runs a gardening and snow removal business. They have two children. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) Appointed to the Senate in 2002 by her father, former senator then governor Frank Murkowski, Lisa Murkowski lost the Republican primary in 2010 but won the general election after a write-in vote campaign. Overshadowed by the more famous Republican woman from Alaska, Sarah Palin (who beat Frank Murkowski for governor in 2006), Murkowski has worked hard to beat any accusations of nepotism. She is the ranking member on the committee on energy and natural resources and, unsurprisingly for an Alaskan native, she is pro-drilling. As she puts it on her website, she has introduced legislation "to tap the estimated 10.4bn barrels of oil and 8.6tn cubic feet of natural gas in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; promote development of the energy resources found on America's outer continental shelf by expanding federal revenue sharing with coastal states; promote construction of a natural gas pipeline connecting Alaska's north slope with lower 48 energy markets; and promote the research and development of renewable energy." Murkowksi explains her approach to energy policy by describing her upbringing in Alaska, "where oil and gas production form the backbone of the state's economy. Petroleum development in Alaska accounts for more than 42,000 jobs -- a third of the state's employment