WASHINGTON— U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI) and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), joined U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) and chair of the Europe and Regional Security Cooperation SFRC Subcommittee, and Senate Majority Whip Dick […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski (both R-Alaska) have introduced Bree’s Law, S. 2364. The legislation—named after Breanna (Bree) Moore, a 20-year-old Alaskan who was murdered by her boyfriend in 2014—drives education initiatives to enable youth, parents, and advocates to recognize, prevent, and mitigate teen dating violence. According to the Centers for Disease Control and […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) signed on this week as a cosponsor of the Securing the Homeland from International Entrants with Life-threatening Diseases Act, or SHIELD Act, legislation introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to codify the previous administration’s public health order under Title 42 that required U.S. border officials to promptly remove illegal immigrants to prevent […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, all R-Alaska, issued the following statements after the Biden administration announced it will seek to revoke the Tongass National Forest’s full exemption from the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule (Roadless Rule), granted under the previous administration, and also further diminish the supply available for a viable timber industry. […]
WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) introduced the Federal Permitting Reform and Jobs Act, a bill to improve the federal permitting process for some of the largest infrastructure projects and build on efforts to update this process in 2015. “If we are going to grow our economy, build […]
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) led a bipartisan group of senators—including Senators Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)—in announcing the introduction of their Rural and Frontier Telehealth Expansion Act. The bipartisan legislation would increase Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) funding for telehealth services in frontier […]
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) joined Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) in sending a letter to the U.S. Trade Representative, Ambassador Katherine Tai, highlighting the importance of reconvening trade agreement talks with Taiwan. Sen. Sullivan recently led a bipartisan visit to East Asia that included a stop in Taipei where the delegation announced […]
WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, all R-Alaska, announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded over $20 million to the Robert Curtis Memorial Airport in Noorvik and the Togiak Airport in Togiak Village. The funding was made available under the FAA’s Airport Improvement Program (AIP), which allocates funding for airports […]
WASHINGTON—On the floor of the U.S. Senate on Thursday, Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) recognized Lydia Jacoby, of Seward, a young Alaskan swimmer who will be representing the United States at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in July. Jacoby, just 17 years old, recently swam the season’s second-fastest women’s 100-meter in the world at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha, Nebraska. Sen. […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), led a press conference yesterday with several of his Senate Republican colleagues, including SASC Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), calling on President Joe Biden to prioritize national defense and homeland security in the administration’s budget proposals. According to the Washington Post, the president’s […]