WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) have introduced S. 1076, the Choose Respect Act. The bipartisan legislation is focused on spreading awareness and seeking to change the culture around sexual assault and domestic violence through a national advertising campaign. This bill is the first of what will be a three-part initiative focused on stemming sexual […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) spoke yesterday on the Senate floor to recognize John Sturgeon, of Anchorage. In 2007, John was told by the U.S. Park Service that he couldn’t use a hovercraft on the Nation River in Alaska’s Yukon-Charley National Preserve. He’s been fighting the case in court ever since, winning in […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) yesterday chaired a hearing of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Security to review the state of the missions of the U.S. Coast Guard, the Maritime Administration, and the Federal Maritime Commission. The featured witnesses included Admiral Karl Schultz, commandant of the Coast Guard, Administrator Mark Buzby of the […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan, along with U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Roger Wicker (R-MS) sent a letter to the Senate Budget Committee today supporting the $750 billion defense request in President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2020 budget and advocating for the funding necessary to ensure the military […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, all R-Alaska, today welcomed a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Sturgeon v Frost, that the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) explicitly barred the National Park Service from prohibiting John Sturgeon from operating his hovercraft to hunt moose along the Nation […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) today voted against a resolution supporting a federal “Green New Deal.” The resolution was originally introduced in early February in the House by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and in the Senate by Senator Ed Markey (D-MA). Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called the resolution up for a vote […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) yesterday introduced a resolution in the U.S. Senate marking the 30th anniversary of the disastrous Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska. The collision of the Exxon Valdez tanker with Bligh Reef in the early morning of March 24, 1989 resulted in the release of roughly eleven million gallons of […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) today introduced the Spill Response and Prevention Surety Act, legislation to modify and permanently reauthorize the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund. The fund was established under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to ensure the federal government is able to pay for the swift removal of spilled oil and compensate […]
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, applauded the successful “salvo” test of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) element of our missile defense system. During this salvo test, two Ground-based Interceptors (GBIs) launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base were fired at a single threat-representative ICBM target, […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) spoke yesterday on the Senate floor to recognize Pete Kaiser, of Bethel, who won the 2019 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 9 days, 12 hours, 39 minutes, and 6 seconds. Kaiser is the first person from Bethel, the fifth Alaska Native, and the first person of Yupik […]