Press Releases

06.09.21

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan and Congressman Don Young (both R-Alaska) today applauded the Department of Defense’s (DoD) announcement that it is establishing the Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies, an initiative that the Alaska delegation has worked to both authorize and appropriate funding for. The 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), passed in December 2020, included an amendment to […]

06.07.21

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and a colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, along with Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), a combat veteran who served in the Reserve forces for 23 years and a member of SASC, and Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, participated in a […]

06.07.21

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Angus King (I-Maine), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nevada), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) recently introduced S. 1974, the Visit America Act, which would formally authorize the U.S. Travel and Tourism Advisory Board and create an assistant secretary position within the Department of Commerce focused on bolstering America’s travel and tourism industry and coordinating a strategy across multiple […]

06.06.21

TAIPEI, TAIWAN—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and a colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, along with Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), a combat veteran who served in the Reserve forces for 23 years and a member of SASC, and Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, traveled […]

06.01.21

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, Congressman Don Young, and Governor Mike Dunleavy (all R-Alaska) today criticized the U.S. Department of the Interior for announcing it will suspend all oil and gas leases for portions of the non-wilderness Coastal Plain (1002 Area) of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), pending the outcome of […]

05.28.21

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) this week joined his colleagues on the Environment & Public Works Committee (EPW) in advancing out committee the Surface Transportation Reauthorization Act (STRA) of 2021, a bill authorizing $303.5 billion from the Highway Trust Fund from Fiscal Year 2022 through 2026, and $3.5 billion for Alaska over five years. STRArepresents a 34 percent increase beyond the […]

05.27.21

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee (SVAC)—along with SVAC Ranking Member Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and committee members, Sens. John Boozman (R-Ark), Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.)—yesterday introduced the Guaranteeing Healthcare Access to Personnel Who Served (GHAPS) Act to address gaps […]

05.27.21

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Justice filed a brief yesterday with the U.S. District Court for Alaska defending the Willow project, a significant energy development within the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska (NPR-A) on Alaska’s North Slope that has been halted by litigation. The Biden administration in January announced it would review the final Record of Decision (ROD) for the Willow Master Development Plan (MDP), […]

05.26.21

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Senate today failed to pass, by a vote of 51 to 49, an amendment offered by Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) to S.1260, the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, a bill to commit tens of billions of dollars to bolstering U.S. leadership in emerging technology and innovation. Sullivan’s amendment would have required America’s colleges and universities that […]

05.26.21

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) announced today they have reintroduced bipartisan legislation to expand career opportunities throughout the transportation industry. The Promoting Service in Transportation Act would direct the U.S. Department of Transportation (DoT) to deploy public awareness campaigns highlighting job opportunities in the transportation sector to help fill […]