Mr. President, I want to talk about transparency, and I want to talk about the need for transparency here in the U.S. Senate more than ever. The House and the Senate are moving with breakneck speed to pass one of the biggest, most reckless spending social bills in U.S. history, over $3.5 trillion–a spending spree […]
Mr. President, there have been a lot of discussions on the floor today–and I fully support them–about an important, important role of the U.S. Senate that we need to take on with regard to our oversight responsibility of what the entire country has recently observed as a fiasco, debacle, with regard to foreign policy in […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawai‘i) today reintroduced legislation that will provide for fair Medicare payments for nursing facilities in Hawai‘i and Alaska. The bipartisan Equitable Payments for Nursing Facilities Act will authorize a cost-of-living adjustment at skilled nursing facilities in those states to take […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) were joined by Senators Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) in introducing the Preventing Recognition of Terrorist States Act, which directs the U.S. secretary of state to designate the illegitimate “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” as a state sponsor of terrorism, and the Taliban as a terrorist organization. The […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), along with Congressman Fred Keller (R-Pa.), are demanding congressional review of President Biden’s recent vaccine mandate on private employees before it goes into effect. Last week, President Joe Biden issued vaccine and testing mandates for private businesses […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) yesterday introduced the Restoring Trust in Public Health Act, which would require that nominees for director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) be confirmed by the United States Senate. Recently, the CDC has impacted the lives of hundreds of millions of Americans through […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), spoke at a press conference yesterday with seven of his Senate colleagues after participating in a classified briefing with testimony from General Austin Scott Miller, the former commander of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, regarding the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. Sen. Sullivan […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, all R-Alaska, issued the following statements after the EPA announced it is seeking to reinstate the process to make a Clean Water Act Section 404(c) determination over what it the agency called an effort to “protect certain waters in Bristol Bay, Alaska.” “A year ago, the […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), along with eight of their colleagues on the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), sent a letter yesterday to SASC Chairman Jack Reed (D-R.I.) calling on him to exercise the committee’s authority by holding hearings on the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Specifically, the senators requested sworn testimony from senior military leaders, including Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark […]
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, joined Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino on Fox News Channel’s America’s Newsroom this morning to discuss the aftermath of the Biden administration’s full withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan on Monday, with hundreds of Americans still in the Taliban-controlled country. In the interview, […]