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 […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska), and U.S. Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (D-Alaska), today welcomed a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decision to deny an injunction requested by environmental groups against Alaska’s Willow Project in the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska (NPR-A). “Alaska is unique when it comes […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and Chairman of the International Republican Institute (IRI), released the following statement after Vladimir Kara-Murza, a pro-democracy Russian statesman, was sentenced to 25 years in prison: “I strongly condemn the completely unjust sentencing of 25 years in prison for Vladimir Kara-Murza, […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), all members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today issued the following statements regarding their meeting with the President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen which occurred Friday, March 31 in New York City. “I was honored to lead a strong bipartisan group of […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski (both R-Alaska), and Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (D-Alaska), today welcomed a federal judge’s decision denying a preliminary injunction requested by Lower 48 environmental groups against Alaska’s Willow Project in the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska (NPR-A). The Willow Project was reapproved by the Biden administration on March 13 […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) released the following statement in response to the indictment of former President Donald Trump. “The indictment of a former president and current candidate for the White House is unprecedented and will almost certainly do lasting damage to our polarized nation. Both local and federal prosecutors have previously declined to bring […]
WASHINGTON— U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and 52 of his Senate colleagues today passed legislation, introduced by EPW Ranking Member Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), to overturn President Biden’s overreaching Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Rule. “We have become a red tape nation,” […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), and Congressman Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.), chairman of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), today re-introduced the Sanctions Targeting Aggressors of Neighboring Democracies (STAND) with Taiwan Act of 2023, which would impose crippling, […]