WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawai‘i), and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today reintroduced legislation that would 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 […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), co-founders of the bipartisan Senate Foreign Service Caucus, have passed a Senate resolution celebrating May 5, 2023 as “Foreign Service Day.” The day recognizes the men and women who have served, or are presently serving, in the Foreign Service of the United States and honors the members […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), spoke on the Senate floor last night about the U.S. Navy’s flagrant violation of a law requiring the Department of Defense (DOD) to maintain a minimum of 31 amphibious warships. Two weeks ago, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro appeared before […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska), and Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (D-Alaska), condemned a ruling by the U.S. District Court in Seattle, Washington in favor of a lawsuit filed by Wild Fish Conservancy (WFC) that will effectively shut down a Southeast Alaska small boat troll salmon fishery. WFC argued that the Southeast Alaska salmon harvest […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski (both R-Alaska), and Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (D-Alaska), have introduced legislation to remove the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) “bona fide place of business” requirement, which would make 8(a) small business contractors—including disabled-veteran-owned businesses, woman-owned businesses, and Alaska Native Corporations—ineligible for certain government construction contracts if they do not have a physical office headquarters in the […]
WASHINGTON—Senators Rick Scott (R-FL), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), John Barrasso (R-WY), Roger Marshall (R-KS), and Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced the Directing Independent Research To Yield Carbon Assessment Regarding Electric Vehicles (DIRTY CAR EV) Act to require the Comptroller General of the United States, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy and the Administrator of the Environmental […]
WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) introduced bipartisan legislation to support and strengthen the aviation workforce by breaking down barriers for Americans looking to become commercial pilots. The Flight Education Access Act supports the pipeline of highly qualified pilots in the aviation workforce by providing additional financial support for prospective aviation […]
WASHINGTON—In an interview on Fox News Channel, Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), raised alarm over the Biden administration’s political appointees in the Department of Defense (DOD) prioritizing their climate agenda over military readiness and lethality. Senator Sullivan’s interview occurred a week after he questioned Navy Secretary Carlos […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) today reintroduced Bruce’s Law to bolster federal prevention and education efforts surrounding fentanyl, a deadly synthetic opioid that is increasingly being incorporated into illicit street drugs. The measure is named after an Alaskan, Robert “Bruce” Snodgrass, who tragically passed away in 2021 at the age of […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Brian Schatz (D-Hawai’i), and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) today introduced S.1227, the Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvest (FISH) Act, legislation to combat foreign illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing by blacklisting offending vessels from U.S. ports and waters, bolstering the U.S. Coast Guard’s enforcement capabilities, and […]