WASHINGTON—In several media interviews this week, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) urged his Senate Democratic colleagues to support a clean, bipartisan continuing resolution (CR) to open the federal government. In conversations with Hugh Hewitt on his nationally syndicated radio show, Joe Mathieu on Bloomberg TV, and Amy Demboski on 650 KENI, Sen. Sullivan called the […]
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Senate today unanimously passed Senator Dan Sullivan’s (R-Alaska) resolution affirming October 1st as national Choose Respect Day, coinciding with the start of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The resolution, building on Sen. Sullivan’s Choose Respect Act, signed into law in 2022, highlights the urgent need to promote safety, respect, and healthy relationships—particularly among adolescents […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) released the following statement regarding Senate Democrats voting to shut down the federal government this evening. “Tonight, I voted with my Republican and Democrat colleagues for a short-term, nonpartisan continuing resolution (CR) to keep our government open, fund our essential services, support our military, and ensure federal workers are paid. […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee (SVAC), today welcomed a grant of up to $16,712,172 awarded by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National Cemetery Administration (NCA) to the State of Alaska for the establishment of the Interior Alaska Veterans Cemetery in Fairbanks, Alaska. Sen. Sullivan and his […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) welcomed the announcement that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), through the Federal Highway Administration, has redistributed a record-setting $183.4 million in federal funds to the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities. These funds will be used to deliver infrastructure projects that strengthen highway safety, preserve pavement, and improve […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today received an update from senior Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) officials about the status of the Corps’ work on short-, medium-, and long-term solutions to the recurring threat of glacial lake outburst flooding in Juneau, Alaska. Lt. Gen. […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today thanked his Senate colleagues for unanimously passing his Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Amendments (HABHRCA) Act of 2025, strong, bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the original HABHRCA Act of 1998 for coordinated, effective federal-state responses to harmful algal blooms (HABs) and strengthen the program to ensure that […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski, and Congressman Nick Begich (all R-Alaska), today convened a roundtable meeting with Alaska community and fisheries leaders, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, and other senior federal officials to discuss policy priorities for the Alaska seafood sector and ways the Trump administration […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Angus King (I-Maine) introduced the American Grown Act, legislation requiring the Executive Office of the President, the Department of Defense, and the Department of State to only procure cut flowers and cut greens grown in the United States. Representative Salud Carbajal […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee (SVAC), thanked President Donald Trump for signing his legislation, the Protecting Regular Order (PRO) for Veterans Act, into law. Sen. Sullivan introduced the legislation to establish greater accountability and oversight of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) after the Biden administration VA […]