From Erika Bolstad in Washington D.C. --

Tuesday, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, was at a bipartisan meeting at the White House meeting with the head of that federal agency and other cabinet officials, the president and senators of both parties.

Murkowski, the top Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, left without speaking to reporters. She was the only Republican from Senate leadership ranks to attend the meeting.

But others, including the three authors of pending legislation that seeks to reduce greenhouse gases, said it was a positive meeting. One of the three, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., called it a "terrific discussion" and the next step toward economic recovery.

"There was a great deal of consensus I think the president took away from it," said Kerry, who is co-authoring the legislation with Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn. and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. "The fact that on major issues of energy use and of energy independence, the need to do something…there was a great deal of consensus."

Graham said they focused on "jobs, jobs, jobs."

"It’s one thing to get the economy back on its feet, but how do you take people who’ve lost their jobs and put them back to work. I think we all agreed that this country being more dependent on foreign oil eight years after 9/11 than we were before 9/11 has got to stop."

The other attendees were Democratic Sens. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Barbara Boxer of California, Maria Cantwell of Washington, Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan. The Republicans other than Murkowski were Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, George LeMieux of Florida, Richard Lugar of Indiana.

The meeting also included four cabinet secretaries, including Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.

There's no word on whether Murkowski spoke with the EPA administrator about her ongoing fight to limit the federal agency's ability to regulate greenhouse gases.