WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and 13 of his colleagues on the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) sent a letter today to Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro demanding he fulfill his commitment to provide an updated 30-year shipbuilding plan to the committee that abides by the statutory requirement for the Navy to maintain […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), recently returned from a visit to South Korea and Japan, where he met with senior government and private sector officials about deepening the nations’ trilateral cooperation on military matters, countering the aggressive dictatorships in Moscow […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) released the following statement today on reports of the federal indictment of former President Trump: “As I previously stated: The worst thing for our country is for Americans to start to believe that the Justice Department and FBI provide two tiers of justice, and that the indictment of a former […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska), and Representative Mary Peltola (D-Alaska), today issued statements on legislation that would allow the Alaska Native communities of Haines, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, and Tenakee to form urban corporations and receive land entitlements under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA). The delegation’s bill, […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Jim Risch (R-Idaho) today introduced the Judicial Efficiency Improvement Act of 2023, a bill that would split the massively overburdened Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and create a new Twelfth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In addition to the split, […]
Anchorage, AK – U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska) and U.S. Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (D-Alaska), today released the following joint statement after the Department of the Interior (DOI) announced an up to six-month delay for the finalization of the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) and Record of Decision (ROD) for the […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), and Mitt Romney (R-Utah), along with SASC members Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), and Angus King (I-Maine), introduced the China Defense Spending Transparency Act, bipartisan legislation requiring the Defense Intelligence Agency to publish a comprehensive report exposing the true extent of China’s defense-industrial […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today voted against the House-passed debt limit and budget agreement citing the legislation’s significant inflation-adjusted cuts to defense spendingat one of the most dangerous times for U.S. national security in decades. The agreement passed the Senate by a vote of 63 to 36. “I applaud Speaker McCarthy for his hard work in getting […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), released the following statement after news reports surfaced of Chinese citizens, suspected of espionage, attempting to breach military installations in Alaska: “Whether it’s a Chinese spy balloon, Russian Bear Bombers, or this new reporting of suspected Chinese spies in Alaska, this […]
WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Tom Carper (D-Del.), senior member of the Senate Finance Committee—along with Representatives Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and Michael Burgess (R-Texas)—introduced the Kickstarting Innovative Demonstrations Support (KIDS) Health Act of 2023. The legislation would establish a holistic approach to children’s health care by integrating mental and physical health services […]