WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski (both R-Alaska), and Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (D-Alaska), today welcomed a federal judge’s decision denying a preliminary injunction requested by Lower 48 environmental groups against Alaska’s Willow Project in the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska (NPR-A). The Willow Project was reapproved by the Biden administration on March 13 […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) released the following statement in response to the indictment of former President Donald Trump. “The indictment of a former president and current candidate for the White House is unprecedented and will almost certainly do lasting damage to our polarized nation. Both local and federal prosecutors have previously declined to bring […]
WASHINGTON— U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and 52 of his Senate colleagues today passed legislation, introduced by EPW Ranking Member Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), to overturn President Biden’s overreaching Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Rule. “We have become a red tape nation,” […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), and Congressman Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.), chairman of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), today re-introduced the Sanctions Targeting Aggressors of Neighboring Democracies (STAND) with Taiwan Act of 2023, which would impose crippling, […]
WASHINGTON—Today, bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) advanced out of the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC). The Fire Suppression and Response Funding Assurance Act would improve the federal government’s response to wildfire disasters by ensuring state and local fire suppression assets that are pre-deployed are eligible for […]
WASHINGTON–Madam President, we are debating, last week and this week, the authorization for the use of military force authority that was granted in 2002, which is a really important debate that we are seeing right here on the Senate floor. By the way, it is a good-faith argument. There are Members on both sides […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) yesterday told John Roberts on Fox News’ “America Reports” that, prior to the Biden administration’s approval of the Willow Project, he asked President Biden how he could justify lifting sanctions on Venezuela while shutting down energy production in Alaska. “The one thing that I actually mentioned to the president, I mention it to every Biden administration official, and they’ve never been able to […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) released the following statement after Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced she would be withdrawing a land exchange between the Interior Department and King Cove Corporation. The land exchange, which is currently under review by theNinth Circuit, would allow the construction of a gravel road providing residents of King Cove access […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today welcomed an agreement between the leaders of AUKUS—the trilateral security pact between the U.S., Australia and the United Kingdom—to provide Australia with three American Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines, and to deploy U.S. and British submarines in rotations through Western Australia in the […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska) and Representative Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) today welcomed the Biden administration’s decision to reapprove ConocoPhillips’ Willow Project within Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve (NPRA). After litigation, a court remand, years of supplemental environmental analysis, and a united statewide push in strong support, the administration’s final Record of Decision reapproves an economically viable three-pad project. […]