ANCHORAGE, AK – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) this week welcomed Nancy Wallace, director of the NOAA Marine Debris Program, to Alaska. The Senator and Director Wallace joined a roundtable discussion with Peter Murphy, Alaska regional coordinator of the NOAA Marine Debris Program, Chris Pallister, director of Gulf of Alaska Keeper, and Molly McCammon, director […]
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) spoke on August 3 on the Senate floor in recognition of Kathy Heindl, of Kenai, an Alaskan devoting her time to cleaning the banks of the Kenai River and protecting the fishery for future generations. Heindl, a recipient of the Kachemak Heritage Land Trust’s King Maker Award, was recognized […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK), chair of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, & Coast Guard, today announced the witnesses who will testify at a full committee hearing on the reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act in Soldotna on August 23. Additional stakeholder hearings […]
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Senate last week unanimously passed the Save Our Seas (SOS) Act, legislation introduced by Senators Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) to address the global marine debris crisis. The bill would boost the federal government’s domestic and international response to ocean waste, and allow the NOAA Administrator […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK), a member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, spoke yesterday at the national Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) headquarters to celebrate the Senate’s unanimous passage of the Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2017, legislation co-sponsored by Sullivan, alongside Chairman Johnny Isakson (R-GA), that would […]
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Senate passed bipartisan legislation, co-sponsored by U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski (both R-AK), that gives terminally ill patients an alternative route to treatment, providing such patients options to access investigational agents not yet approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Trickett Wendler Right to Try […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) today applauded Senate passage of S. 717, the Pro bono Work to Empower and Represent (POWER) Act, to help combat domestic abuse and sexual violence. Senators Shaheen (D-NH), Murkowski (R-AK), Capito (R-WV), Cornyn (R-TX) and Daines (R-MT) also were original co-sponsors of the […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) today chaired a hearing of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, & Coast Guard regarding the reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA). Among the witnesses was Chris Oliver, an Alaskan testifying for the first time before the subcommittee […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following statement after the Pentagon confirmed today that North Korea has conducted yet another ballistic missile test. “Today’s North Korean test shows that Kim Jong-un will not stop until he has an ICBM that can strike American […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Sullivan (R-AK) released the following statement tonight after voting for H.R. 1628, the Health Care Freedom Act: “Three years ago, as I crisscrossed the state, I heard story after story of families and small businesses who were experiencing fewer healthcare choices and paying skyrocketing costs for health insurance,” Senator Sullivan […]