Press Releases
Sullivan Leads Effort to Defuse Biden ‘Delay Bomb’ for Infrastructure
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today was joined by all of his voting Republican colleagues and Democratic Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) in passing his legislation to overturn the Biden administration's "National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Implementing Regulations Revisions." The Biden rule will bog down the already-onerous federal permitting process and add further delay to vital infrastructure projects that would put hard-working Americans back to work. "I want to t… Continue Reading
08.03.22
Sullivan, Senate Ratify Accession of Finland and Sweden into NATO Alliance
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today voted to ratify a resolution of advice and consent for the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). For new members to join the NATO alliance, every existing member must approve a country's accession. For the United States, this responsibility falls under the "advice and consent" duties of the U.S. Senate, the body tasked with … Continue Reading
08.02.22
Over 40 Organizations Support Hard-Working Americans With NEPA Reform
WASHINGTON-Following today's press conference on efforts by U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) to nullify the Biden administration's recently promulgated and onerous National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Implementing Regulations Revisions through a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution, Senator Sullivan's press office released a list of organizations supporting the resolution.Sullivan's resolution is supported by all 49 Senate Republicans. The names and statements (where applicable) of … Continue Reading
08.02.22
Sullivan, Senate Colleagues Support Visit to Taiwan by Speaker Pelosi
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and 25 of his colleagues-including Senators Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), John Thune (R-S.D.), Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Rob Portman (R-Ohio)… Continue Reading
08.01.22
EDITORIAL: A Permitting Test for Democrats
by Editorial Board
Permitting headaches for public works are a bipartisan complaint. So we wonder: Will Democratic Senators join their Republican colleagues in voting to reverse a Biden Administration rule that adds costly new roadblocks? Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan plans to call for a vote as early as this week on a resolution to overturn a Council on Environmental Quality change to permitting rules under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Under the Congressional Review Act, a simple majority of both ch… Continue Reading
07.29.22
Sullivan Will Hold Three Pentagon Nominees Over Biden’s Choking Off Domestic Critical Mineral Supplies
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), yesterday announced he intends to hold three senior Biden administration Defense Department nominees in response to the administration's decision in February to stall the Ambler Mining District Industrial Access Road project in Alaska. The nominees will be in charge of the nation's defense industrial base, including the domestic supply chain of critical minerals, resources that are essential … Continue Reading
07.28.22
Senate Passes Key Infrastructure Provisions for Alaska Ports and Harbors
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) celebrated today's passage of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2022 on the Senate floor. The legislation includes key victories for Alaska infrastructure, including increased cost-sharing for the Nome Arctic Deep Draft Port (resulting in community savings of $132 million) and authorization for the Elim Subsistence Harbor project.… Continue Reading
07.28.22
Murkowski, Sullivan Announce Over $116 Million in Infrastructure Funding for High-Speed Internet in Alaska
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska) today announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is awarding over $116 million to improve high-speed internet access in numerous Alaska villages and communities. These grants were made possible by the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), led by Senator Murkowski. The grants come through USDA's ReConnect Program, which aims to provide high-speed internet for all communities across the United Sta… Continue Reading
07.28.22
Sullivan: We Are in a Recession and Democrats Want to Raise Taxes
WASHINGTON-Following the announcement by the Bureau of Economic Analysis that U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.9% in this year's second quarter, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) released the following statement: "According to Biden's own National Economic Council Director, today's GDP numbers indicate we are in a recession," Sen. Sullivan said. "I find it extremely concerning that the White House refuses to acknowledge and accept responsibility for the havoc they have unle… Continue Reading
07.28.22
SPEECH: Sullivan Speaks on Biden's Burdensome NEPA Rules
WASHINGTON-Madam President, today, actually, I want to talk about the Americans of the century, the Americans of the century. This is an iconic, iconic picture of the men--and, of course, women--who built our great Nation: the working families, the union members who built our great Nation, won World War II. This is, by the way, the Empire State Building. Some of our workers built that. I want to talk about that here in a minute. They are having a little bit of lunch. But these are the wor… Continue Reading
07.22.22
Sullivan Recognizes Betsy Lawer as “Alaskan of the Week”
WASHINGTON-On the floor of the U.S. Senate yesterday, Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) recognized Betsy Lawer, the board chair, CEO and president of First National Bank Alaska, which is celebrating 100 years since its founding. Betsy is a member of the storied Cuddy family, which purchased a controlling interest in the bank by the early 1940s and helped grow it into an important financial institution supporting the growth of the state and economic opportunities for Alaskans. Lawer was recognized … Continue Reading
07.22.22
Sullivan: Why Won’t Senate Democrats Tell Americans The Truth About Spiking Energy Prices?
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) this week called out Senate Democrats for blocking a bill offered by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) that would direct the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) to determine whether any executive order or action taken by the Biden administration has caused or contributed to the recent spike in energy prices. Senate Democrats objected to passage of S.3086, the Give Americans Stability at Pumps as Rising Inflation Causes Emergencies (GAS PRICE) Act, by unani… Continue Reading
07.19.22
Sullivan: Biden’s Domestic Energy Surrender Put President in “Position of Weakness” with Saudi Arabia
WASHINGTON-On CNBC Squawk Box this morning, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) called President Joe Biden's recent trip to Saudi Arabia a failure due to the president's inability to secure commitments from the Saudis to ramp up oil and gas production. Sullivan argued that the president's domestic energy policies-blocking energy infrastructure, pressing the financial sector to blackball American energy, and appointing anti-U.S. energy senior financial officials-have put the United States in a p… Continue Reading
07.18.22
Sullivan: Senate Democrats Have a Choice—Stand with Hard-Working Americans or Far-Left Environmentalists
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) spoke on the Senate floor recently about a joint resolution of disapproval he introduced under the Congressional Review Act (CRA), with all 49 of his Senate Republican colleagues, to nullify the Biden administration's new National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulation. In his speech, Sullivan argued that the new NEPA rules will further bog down the already-onerous federal permitting process, undermine important regulatory reforms that he helpe… Continue Reading
07.18.22
Sullivan, Fellow Senators Ask Defense Department to Expedite Critical Military Aid to Ukraine
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Robert Portman (R-Ohio), and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, asking them to immediately expedite shipments of military equipment to Ukraine as appropriated by Congress under the Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act. Passed on May 19, the act provided ne… Continue Reading
07.15.22
Sullivan Says Biden’s Equity Agenda Too Often Ignores Alaska Natives
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) yesterday urged President Joe Biden and his administration to expeditiously advance the Willow Project, a large oil and gas project in the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska (NPR-A) that is overwhelmingly supported by Alaskans, particularly statewide Alaska Native leaders and those who reside on Alaska's North Slope. The Biden administration's Bureau of Land Management recently released a draft supplemental environmental impact statement (EIS) fo… Continue Reading
07.15.22
Sullivan Tells Biden: Send Envoys to Alaska & Texas—Not Saudi Arabia & Venezuela—for America’s Energy Needs
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) joined Larry Kudlow on Fox Business Network yesterday and criticized President Joe Biden for begging dictators around the world-this week, in Saudi Arabia-to produce more oil when states, like Alaska, have untapped resources waiting to be produced by American workers. The senator called on the president to send envoys to Alaska and Texas-not the dictators in Saudi Arabia and Venezuela-to meet with producers and hear how the administration can help,… Continue Reading
07.14.22
Sullivan Leads Effort to Overturn Biden’s Onerous NEPA Rules, Save Historic Infrastructure Investments
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) yesterday introduced S.J. Res. 55, a joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act(CRA), with all 49 of his Senate Republican colleagues to nullify the Biden administration's new regulation, "National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Implementing Regulations Revisions," that will further bog down the already-onerous federal permitting process and add further delay to building vital infrastructure projects and putting hard-workin… Continue Reading
07.14.22
SPEECH: Sullivan leads effort to overturn Biden’s onerous NEPA rules
WASHINGTON-Madam President, I want to talk about two other issues today that I care deeply about--I think most Senators do, and certainly Americans do--and that is two things that our country desperately needs: infrastructure and energy. Infrastructure and energy--and we all know that this is what is needed. We talk about it here a lot in the Senate. However, some, especially in the Biden administration, talk a lot about these issues but, then, when it comes to taking action, maybe not s… Continue Reading
07.14.22
SPEECH: Sullivan speaks about Alaska's Willow project
WASHINGTON-Madam President, I want to turn to energy now. You know the President is in Saudi Arabia. There is a lot of irony here, I believe, because his administration has clearly made it harder for Americans to produce American energy with American workers, with American infrastructure. That is a fact. That is a fact, OK? I see it in Alaska every day--every single day. The Federal Government is trying to stop the production of American energy. What are we seeing? Inflation, super high … Continue Reading