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06.13.19

Western States Call for Action on Transboundary Issues

06.11.19

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler is attending a meeting this week with environmental leaders from twenty of the world’s largest economies, where he will press his counterparts on the crisis of trash b...

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06.11.19

For forty years, Mother Lawrence opened her home to a community that struggled with poverty and crime, and her heart to hundreds of neighbors—any neighbor—in need. Her activism, courage, deep faith, a...

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06.11.19

Senators Introduce Post Traumatic Stress Resolution

06.10.19

Wow! I’m floored by all of the great photographers we have in our state. We received so many spectacular images from all across Alaska for our summer 2019 Frontier in Focus photo contest. Here are our...

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06.10.19

Glad to be taking part in a productive roundtable on Capitol Hill, hosted by Kawerak, about the Inuit way of life and the sustainable harvest of the walrus. Watch live now. ?? https://youtu.be/eOPSXTA...

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06.09.19

Alaska’s world-class track star, Allie Ostrander, does it again, winning her third straight steeplechase national championship, the first woman ever to claim such a feat in that event. Alaskans could...

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06.09.19

Glad to meet with the Garrett family, of Chugiak, this week just off the floor of the Senate chamber. This is the Garretts’ first visit to our nation’s capital, and they are making the most of it, tak...

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06.08.19

Healthy oceans are a goal for all of us. On World Oceans Day, my colleague, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and I came together in a forum hosted by the United Nations Development Fund to talk about ou...

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06.08.19

Had a great time at the annual NOAA Fish Fry here at the U.S. Commerce Department in D.C., highlighting America’s many amazing seafood harvesters. As always, the Alaska seafood tents absolutely domina...

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06.07.19

Alaska has a new star arriving soon on the small screen! I helped celebrate the premiere of a new PBS Kids show coming this summer called “Molly of Denali,” starring a ten-year-old Alaska Native girl...

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06.07.19

Just one day left! We are excited to highlight some talented Alaskan amateur photogs and your unique perspectives on our great state. Thank you to everyone who has already submitted photos for our Fro...

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06.06.19

On this 75th anniversary of D-Day, we give thanks for the thousands of brave men who gave their lives storming the beaches of Normandy to free a captive continent, those who said to generations to com...

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06.06.19

Came for the hearing, stayed for a scuffle about Alaska’s right to build roads

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06.05.19

Senator Murkowski and I met this afternoon with a great group of high schoolers from Ketchikan on the Capitol steps. Many of them happened to be members of the school’s debate team so, naturally, they...

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06.05.19

Sen. Sullivan (R-AK) Defends Alaska's Right to Build Roads - June 4, 2019

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06.05.19

Just days after concluding his visit to Alaska, Attorney General Bill Barr announced that Anchorage will be one of ten cities entering into a National Public Safety Partnership with the U.S. Justice D...

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06.04.19

One hundred years ago, today, the U.S. Senate passed the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Alaska was ahead of its time with the Territorial Legislature granting women the right to vote in 1913...

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06.04.19

Today, we mark the 30th anniversary of the massacre at Tiananmen Square, when thousands of peaceful Chinese protesters voiced their support for democratic reforms. The government’s brutal display of f...

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06.03.19

Rain or shine, the people of Kodiak turn out for Crabfest, and this year, we had plenty of both! Julie and I could not have enjoyed our weekend on Alaska’s big island more - pardoning a red king crab...

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