WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) today introduced the Careful Resumption Under Improved Safety Enhancements (CRUISE) Act, which would revoke the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) current “Conditional Sailing Order” on cruises and require the CDC to provide COVID-19 mitigation guidance for cruise lines to resume safe operations. Representatives Don […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and a Marine Corps Reserve Colonel who recently returned from training at Camp Lejeune, today criticized a suggestion made by one of his colleagues that as much as ten percent of America’s military service members may ascribe to “violent extremist” […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, welcomed an announcement today by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that the agency is awarding an $18,771,041 contract to rebuild the NOAA port facility in Ketchikan, Alaska, with completion expected by December 2022. The contract is a result of several […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, all R-Alaska, were all identified by the Center for Effective Lawmaking (CEL) among the top ten most effective lawmakers in the 116th Congress. CEL, a non-partisan, joint partnership between the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt University provides an in-depth look at the effectiveness of […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska) today released the following statement after being briefed by Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on publication of the CDC’s Framework for Conditional Sailing Order (CSO). The steps released today are required for the cruise ship industry to safely return to passenger operations as the […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was interviewed on Monday by the Atlantic Council’s President and CEO Frederick Kempe regarding the senator’s call for a long-term, bipartisan strategy to address the challenges posed by the rise of China. The Atlantic Council is a premier think tank focused on international affairs […]
WASHINGTON– U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, all R-Alaska, sent a letter with colleagues to Jeffrey Zients, the White House COVID response coordinator, urging the Biden administration to be more transparent and timely in their efforts to develop guidance for the resumption of operations for the cruise ship industry. Since the […]
WASHINGTON—On the floor of the U.S. Senate this week, Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) urged his colleagues not to curtail the legislative filibuster—the 60-vote threshold necessary to advance legislation—and to consider the long-term ramifications of changing this foundational rule of debate in the Senate in exchange for short-term partisan benefits. Sen. Sullivan noted that when Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress […]
WASHINGTON—On the floor of the U.S. Senate yesterday, Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) recognized Rod Boyce, of Fairbanks, the recently retired long-time editor of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and an avid dog musher. Boyce spent nearly his entire career, 35 years, ensuring that Alaskans stay connected and informed through local news. Since his retirement, Boyce has worked as a writer and public […]
Mr. President, I wanted to come down to the Senate floor for a couple reasons, but first I want to talk a little bit about what happened in Alaska last weekend–actually, a really important meeting between the United States and China, our senior diplomats, their senior diplomats. It took place in Anchorage, and let’s just […]