Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, issued the following statements on the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) final Environmental Impact Statement for the Willow Master Development Plan in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A). “As Alaskans work to rebuild our economy, it’s essential for significant projects to make […]
KETCHIKAN, AK – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) this weekend welcomed an announcement by Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $1.65 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to six EDA Economic Development Districts and Alaska Native planning organizations across Alaska to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On the floor of the U.S. Senate yesterday, Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) recognized Julia Bevins, of Homer, who founded the world-renowned International Association for Bear Research and Management (IBA). Julia founded the IBA with the life insurance funds received from the passing of her late husband, John, whose plane was lost in 1990 on a polar bear research trip with the […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee (SVAC), welcomed the committee’s passage yesterday of two pieces of his legislation addressing veterans who were exposed to toxic substances during their service, and the Senate’s unanimous passage on July 30 of his Highly Rural Veteran Transportation Program Extension Act, a […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), both members of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee (SVAC), today thanked members of the committee for passing S. 2950, the Veterans Burn Pit Exposure Recognition Act of 2019, their legislation to address a barrier currently preventing many veterans from getting U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce’s Subcommittee on Security, and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) teamed up today to introduce legislation to help ports weather the coronavirus pandemic and future disasters. The bipartisan Maritime Transportation System Emergency Relief Act (MTSERA)would establish a first-of-its-kind comprehensive maritime emergency relief authority to provide […]
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Continuing his leadership efforts to address the non-reciprocal economic relationship between the United States and China, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) yesterday chaired a hearing of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Security entitled “The China Challenge: Realignment of U.S. Economic Policies to Build Resiliency and Competitiveness.” The hearing examined topics related to the Chinese […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) spoke on the Senate floor this afternoon highlighting Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) obstruction of legislation put forth earlier today to extend the current federal unemployment benefits for one week, while the Senate and the House continue to debate the next package of COVID-19 pandemic relief. Currently, […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On the floor of the U.S. Senate yesterday, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) recognized five young Alaskans who rescued four people from a crashed Alaska Division of Forestry plane in a lake near Aniak in late May. The young men—Dylan Nicholson, 13 years old, Trevor Morgan and Mason Dallmann, both 17, A.J. Simeon, 19, and Skye Morgan, 18—sprung into […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today voted with 85 of his colleagues to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2021, which authorizes $740.5 billion in critical defense spending and includes numerous Arctic and Alaska priorities championed by Sullivan. Provisions secured by Sullivan include $193 million in […]