Washington, D.C. – Alaska’s congressional delegation – Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan and Rep. Don Young – on Tuesday sent a letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell urging the Department to keep all three lease sales proposed for Alaska’s OCS in the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) final Five-Year Program for the years […]
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Senate unanimously passed S.1335, the Ensuring Access to Fisheries Act. The bipartisan legislation, introduced by U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), will implement treaties ratified by the Senate last year to better manage certain fisheries in the North and South Pacific and the North […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee’s Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife, held a hearing today entitled “Marine Debris and Wildlife: Impacts, Sources, and Solutions,” exploring the sources of marine debris, its impacts on wildlife populations, and potential solutions to this issue. “Alaska is home […]
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation introduced by Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Congressman Don Young (R-AK) to allow for the sale of nine acres of unused and undeveloped federal property to the Municipality of Anchorage. S. 1492 facilitates the conveyance of the National Archives and Records Administration property located at 400 […]
WASHINGTON, DC – In the Weekly Republican Address, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, discusses our nation’s lack of economic growth under the Obama Administration. “Our economy is stagnant…We can do so much better for America. But President Obama tells us differently. He lowers expectations by calling […]
WASHINGTON, DC – The Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday, with U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan’s (R-AK) support, passed out of committee legislation to authorize $602 billion in critical defense spending for Fiscal Year 2017. “A critical piece of legislation, the National Defense Authorization Act sets our nation’s security priorities and allocates the resources our military needs […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) was selected by the Republican Party to deliver the weekly national address to the nation. During his remarks, Senator Sullivan, will focus on the lost decade of economic growth under the Obama administration. The address will be available nationwide overnight and Alaska reporters will receive the audio, […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Senate passed a resolution (attached), introduced by U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Alaska State Troopers and honoring the “first responders of the last frontier” and their families for their service and sacrifice. In 1941, the 15th Territorial Legislature established the Alaska Highway […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Amid concerns about how the development of several hardrock mines in British Columbia could negatively affect waterways and fisheries in Southeast Alaska, Senators Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young wrote a letter (attached) to Secretary of State John Kerry, urging for action. The Alaska Congressional Delegation called upon the Secretary […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK) released the following statement today in response to comments made by White House spokesman Josh Earnest yesterday after it was reported that another American service member was killed in action in Iraq. Earnest told reporters that “the relatively small number of U.S. service members that are involved […]