WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), and Mitt Romney (R-Utah), along with SASC members Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), and Angus King (I-Maine), introduced the China Defense Spending Transparency Act, bipartisan legislation requiring the Defense Intelligence Agency to publish a comprehensive report exposing the true extent of China’s defense-industrial […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today voted against the House-passed debt limit and budget agreement citing the legislation’s significant inflation-adjusted cuts to defense spendingat one of the most dangerous times for U.S. national security in decades. The agreement passed the Senate by a vote of 63 to 36. “I applaud Speaker McCarthy for his hard work in getting […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), released the following statement after news reports surfaced of Chinese citizens, suspected of espionage, attempting to breach military installations in Alaska: “Whether it’s a Chinese spy balloon, Russian Bear Bombers, or this new reporting of suspected Chinese spies in Alaska, this […]
WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Tom Carper (D-Del.), senior member of the Senate Finance Committee—along with Representatives Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.) and Michael Burgess (R-Texas)—introduced the Kickstarting Innovative Demonstrations Support (KIDS) Health Act of 2023. The legislation would establish a holistic approach to children’s health care by integrating mental and physical health services […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Environment & Public Works (EPW) Committee and vice chair of the Senate Western Caucus, celebrated the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling yesterday in Sackett vs. the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA), which reins in the Biden administration’s expansive interpretation of the federal government’s authority under the Clean Water Act to regulate “waters […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today released the following statement responding to reports that President Joe Biden has approved a plan to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets and for U.S. allies to provide the fourth-generation fighters, signaling a clear reversal from the Biden administration’s […]
Delegation Welcomes Reaffirmation of Alaska LNG Project Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski (both R-AK) and Representative Mary Peltola (D-AK) this week welcomed a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals upholding the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) approval of the Alaska Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project. The court’s decision both dismissed […]
WASHINGTON—On the eve of the G-7 Summit in Japan, U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) yesterday introduced the Indo-Pacific Strategic Energy Initiative Act, legislation to promote the financing and development of new energy infrastructure projects in the Indo-Pacific region—with a focus on natural gas—in order to end U.S. allies’ dependance on Russian natural gas […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, (both R-Alaska), and Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (D-Alaska) welcomed allocations of nearly $216 million in fishery disaster funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce. In December, the Secretary of Commerce announced that a number of Alaska’s crab and salmon fisheries met the requirements for disaster determinations […]
WASHINGTON—In honor of National Police Week, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) on Wednesday reintroduced the Protect Our Heroes Act. The legislation would make it a federal crime to assault or kill a public safety officer and add an enhanced penalty in the event an officer is lured to a location for an ambush attack. Sen. Sullivan […]