WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) thanked their House colleagues, led by Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (D-Alaska), for passing their bill today to permanently authorize the Pro Bono Work to Empower and Represent (POWER) Act. Since it was signed into law for a four-year term in 2018, thePOWER Act has been helping combat domestic violence and […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), both members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), have introduced the Fairness for American Victims of State-Sponsored Terrorism Act, which would expand and improve a federal program that helps terrorist attack victims and their families get justice. Specifically, the bill repurposes no-longer-needed COVID-19 funding to help American victims of terrorism recover court-awarded payments for acts […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) today at 4:00pm will attempt to pass the Protect Camp Lejeune Victims Ensnared by Trial-lawyers’ Scams (VETS) Act by unanimous consent, meaning the bill will pass […]
WASHINGTON D.C.—Today, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) released the following statement after voting for final passage of the Respect for Marriage Act (RMA): “While I’ve long held that marriage should be an issue left up to the states, the Supreme Court nationalized the issue in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015. Although I disagreed with […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska) applauded the announcement of an additional $135.9 million in federal broadband grants for communities across Alaska. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program (TBCP) announced the grants Thursday for broadband programs in Western, Southcentral, and Southeastern Alaska. Newly announced grant recipients include the NANA Regional Corporation, Inc., Central Council Tlingit & Haida Indian […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee (SVAC), criticized some of his committee colleagues in an SVAC hearing yesterday for enabling predatory trial lawyers to charge sick Marines exorbitant fees in court cases related to water contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. Impacted Marines are […]
Anchorage, AK – U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska) sent a new letter to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland reiterating their strong support for the Ambler Access Project (Ambler Road). The Senators’ letter, in response to the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) recent request for public input as it scopes a Supplemental Environmental Impact […]
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska) today announced that the Tanana Chiefs Conference (TCC) is receiving a $30.3 million federal broadband grant, made possible by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The grant comes through USDA’s ReConnect Program, which aims to build out broadband infrastructure to connect communities across the United States […]
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska) today announced that four Alaska coastal communities will receive a total of $112 million in investments this year for critical port-related infrastructure and ferry terminal projects, marking the first wave of these type of investments attributable to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). The awards, made possible by the […]
TOKYO—Today, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) released the following statement at the conclusion of the Alaska LNG Summit of U.S. and Japanese energy and policy leaders convened in Tokyo by U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel. The summit was a significant gathering of stakeholders seeking to advance the Alaska LNG Project—a proposed 800-mile pipeline from […]