WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) thanked his House colleagues who voted tonight on legislation the Senate passed earlier this week to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. On Monday, November 10, Sen. Sullivan voted with 59 of his Senate colleagues for a bipartisan continuing resolution to reopen and fund the federal government through […]
WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) welcomed President Donald Trump’s announcement of his intent to nominate Aaron Christian Peterson to serve as a judge on the United States District Court for the District of Alaska. “I congratulate Aaron Peterson on being nominated to serve on the federal bench for the District of Alaska. I also […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, released the following video message in recognition of Veterans Day. Below is a full transcript of Sen. Sullivan’s Veterans Day message. Greetings, Alaska, from Washington, D.C. on this Veterans Day. Thank you to all Alaskans for supporting our veterans and our military […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today released the following statement after voting to advance legislation to reopen and fund the government, as he has done 14 previous times since the end of September. Senate Democrats have, until tonight, prevented the Senate from reaching the 60 votes necessary to advance legislation. Tonight’s vote was the first […]
WASHINGTON—In an appearance on Alaska’s Political Pipeline on Alaska’s News Source on Thursday, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) again called for his Senate Democratic colleagues to vote for the clean, bipartisan continuing resolution (CR) to open the government in order to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), pay essential federal workers, and end the […]
WASHINGTON—In an appearance on Bloomberg TV’s Balance of Power on Thursday, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) touted the significant progress being made on the Alaska liquified natural gas (LNG) project. Earlier this week, Tokyo Gas announced letters of intent with Glenfarne, the lead developer of the proposed Alaska LNG project, for purchases of Alaska gas […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), along with Alaska state, local and tribal leaders, led a group of senior federal officials to Western Alaska last weekend to survey the villages hardest hit by the remnants of Typhoon Halong. Officials participating in the visit included Eric Ueland, deputy director of the White House Office of Management and […]
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Senate, by a vote of 52 to 45, today passed Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski’s (both R-Alaska) joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to overturn the Biden administration’s restrictive 2022 Integrated Activity Plan (IAP) Record of Decision (ROD) for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A). The Biden-era […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today chaired a hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Coast Guard, Maritime, and Fisheries which examined how to modernize and accelerate U.S. commercial and Navy shipbuilding while strengthening America’s broader maritime industrial base. In his opening remarks and questions of witnesses, Sen. Sullivan focused on the […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) celebrated the Senate recently passing their Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvest (FISH) Act as part of the Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The FISH Act would combat foreign illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing by blacklisting offending vessels from U.S. ports and waters, […]