WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) introduced legislation to improve the federal process associated with delivering fishery disaster relief. Representatives Mary Sattler Peltola (D-Alaska) and Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) introduced the companion legislation in the House of Representatives last year. The Fishery Improvement to Streamline Untimely Regulatory […]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed bipartisan legislation led by U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) to ensure military families can continue to be laid to rest together in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) national cemeteries. Under current law, in the tragic case of […]
WASHINGTON– Today, U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) and U.S. Representatives John James (R-Mich.-10) and Russ Fulcher (R-Idaho-01) introduced bipartisan Congressional Review Act (CRA) legislation in the Senate and House to block the Biden administration’s electric vehicle mandates. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently finalized new emissions regulations which would require up […]
Sullivan & Blumenthal Call on President to Enforce Stronger Sanctions Against Iran WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), both members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), called on President Biden to enforce stronger sanctions against Iran in a letter sent last week. Citing Iran’s attacks on Israel on April 13, as […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), delivered remarks on the Senate floor today advocating for passage of the national security legislation he played a lead role in crafting and voted with 30 of his Republican colleagues to advance. In his speech, Senator Sullivan emphasized that the legislation […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), along with 25 of their Senate Republican colleagues, sent a letter today to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, urging them to restore order to campuses that have been effectively shut down by antisemitic mobs that are targeting Jewish students. The senators […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) said President Joe Biden effectively “cancelled” the voices of the Alaska Native North Slope leaders who were unanimously opposed to the President’s decision to restrict more than 13 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska (NPR-A) from resource development in an interview on CBS News’ “Face […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) today thanked their colleagues for unanimously passing their bipartisan Senate resolution recognizing the week of April 7, 2024 through April 13, 2024 as “National Water Week.” The resolution recognizes that every community in the United States deserves to have access to affordable, safe, and clean drinking […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska) and Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (D-Alaska) today slammed President Biden and his administration for making two more major adversarial decisions—on top of dozens of others over the past three years—that will prevent responsible resource development in Alaska. Earlier today, the Department of the Interior (DOI) released […]
Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (D-Alaska) today applauded the announcement that the Air National Guard will delay the implementation of full-time leveling actions in the state of Alaska that would impact or eliminate nearly 80 Active Guard Reserve positions and threaten the United States […]