The Anchorage Daily News reported:

“The (senators) that immediately come to mind are those that are on the other side of the aisle and I have a good working relationship with,” Murkowski said. She named Sen. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, and Sen. Jeff Bingaman, the New Mexico Democrat with whom Murkowski serves on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

According to KTUU, Murkowski also named the late Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), the long-time senator who recently died in a plane crash, as a lawmaker she admired.