WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today released the following statement after an unidentified aircraft was detected and tracked by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and shot down by an Alaska-based F-22 fighter jet over northern Canada. The incident follows the shoot-down of another high-altitude objectover Alaska yesterday, and a Chinese […]
WASHINGTON—In a speech on the Senate floor this week, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) argued that if the Department of the Interior (DOI) takes the unusual step of selecting a different alternative than “Alternative E,” recommended by career Bureau of Land Management (BLM) scientists and technical staff in the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Willow […]
WASHINGTON—In an interview this evening on Fox Business Network’s “The Bottom Line,” U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) commended the U.S. military personnel who tracked, intercepted and shot down an unidentified flying object violating U.S. airspace in the northeast part of Alaska. The incursion comes about one week after a Chinese spy balloon was shot down by a U.S. fighter jet […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee (SVAC), Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and nine other senators were joined by Representatives Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Mike Bost (R-Ill.), chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee (HVAC), in introducing the Protect Camp Lejeune Victims Ensnared by Trial-lawyers’ Scams (VETS) Act. The bill […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today released the following statement after an unidentified object flying in Alaska airspace was shot down by a U.S. fighter jet. “Like all Alaskans, I appreciate and am proud of the professional work of our Alaska-based military. Today’s shoot-down of another […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) said he is urging Biden administration officials to reestablish deterrence with China in an interview on Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends this morning. Senator Sullivan told Fox’s Steve Doocy that he raised the deterrence point to uniformed and civilian Pentagon officials at a classified briefing Thursday. The briefing covered the Chinese […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) this week re-introduced the Replenishing Our American Reserves (ROAR) Act, legislation that would ensure that the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) only includes petroleum products produced in the United States, and the United States doesn’t sell petroleum products from the SPR to America’s adversaries, like China. “The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), and Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) and Jenniffer González-Colón (R-Puerto Rico), today reintroduced legislation amending the 2020 Save Our Seas (SOS) 2.0 Act and the 2006 Marine Debris Act to provide the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) with greater flexibility to deliver federal resources and enter into cooperative […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) introduced bipartisan legislation today that pushes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to conduct research on the health effects of medicinal cannabis for veterans experiencing chronic pain and symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). “Our nation’s veterans deserve options when it comes to treating the wounds […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) yesterday delivered his annual address to a joint session of the Alaska Legislature in Juneau, Alaska. Sen. Sullivan focused on three overarching themes: revitalizing Alaska’s economy and creating opportunities for good jobs for all Alaskans; addressing the social challenges of domestic violence and sexual assault, addiction, and mental health declines […]