Press Releases
Sullivan Opposes Powell’s Confirmation as Fed Chair
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today released the following statement after voting against the confirmation of Jerome Powell to serve a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve. "Although I respect his experience and knowledge, today I voted against the confirmation of Jay Powell to serve a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve. "The Federal Reserve has a dual mandate from Congress: maintaining price stability while keeping unemployment low. During Chairman Pow… Continue Reading
05.11.22
ICYMI: SULLIVAN: Despite Biden’s Varying Explanations This Past Year, Inflation is Joe Biden’s Fault
WASHINGTON-On the Hugh Hewitt Show today, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) called out President Joe Biden for refusing to accept responsibility for the record-setting inflation that is "crushing middle-class and working-class families." Sullivan said the sky-high prices Americans are paying are "Joe Biden's fault…the Federal Reserve's fault…Biden's anti-energy policies' fault." Sullivan also discussed letters he has sent to the Interior Department's inspector general and ethics… Continue Reading
05.06.22
Sullivan Recognizes Alison Kear as “Alaskan of the Week”
WASHINGTON-On the floor of the U.S. Senate yesterday, Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) recognized Alison Kear, of Anchorage, the executive director at Covenant House Alaska, the largest shelter in Alaska for at-risk youth experiencing homelessness. During her tenure, Kear has grown the services offered, including shelter, job training, education services, and counseling, among others. Covenant House Alaska is now a nationwide model for helping youth. Kear was recognized as part of Sen. Sullivan's… Continue Reading
05.06.22
Sullivan, Van Hollen Recognize U.S. Foreign Service Day
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), co-founders of the bipartisan Senate Foreign Service Caucus, announced they will introduce a resolution celebrating May 6, 2022, as "Foreign Service Day." The day recognizes the men and women who have served, or are presently serving, in the Foreign Service of the United States and honors the members of the Foreign Service who have given their lives in the line of duty. Foreign Service Day has been celebrated on the f… Continue Reading
05.06.22
Murkowski, Sullivan Announce Fisheries Disaster Funding for Alaska
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both R-Alaska, today announced the U.S. Department of Commerce will direct nearly $132 million to Alaska for fishery disasters. The funds, which were appropriated by Congress, are part of a total of $144 million that will be disbursed nationwide for this purpose. "I'm pleased to announce this crucial funding is finally on the way for Alaska's seafood industry. After facing both serious fishery disasters and the pandemic, there are owners… Continue Reading
05.05.22
Army to Reestablish 11th Airborne Division, America’s Third, in Alaska
WASHINGTON-U.S. Army Secretary Christine Wormuth announced today that U.S. Army Alaska will be redesignated as the 11th Airborne Division, constituting the nation's third airborne division and second paratrooper division. Secretary Wormuth made the announcement during a line of questioning today from Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) in a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), which included testimony from General James McConville, chief of staff of the Army. Sullivan and Wormuth m… Continue Reading
05.05.22
SPEECH: Indo-Pacific Economic Framework
Mr. President, I wanted to come down to talk about a topic that a number of Senators have been talking about and that a number of Senators have been focused on. That is the topic of Taiwan and potentially the defense of Taiwan and the support for Taiwan. As this body knows, in 1979, the Senate passed a very important bill called the Taiwan Relations Act--a very bipartisan bill. From that time on, the Senate has played a very important oversight role in U.S. relations with Taiwan, and it h… Continue Reading
05.04.22
Senate Approves Sullivan Motion to Ban Taxpayer Dollars from Funding Forced-Labor-Sourced Minerals, Technology
WASHINGTON-The U.S. Senate today approved a motion offered by Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) instructing the conferees for the United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2022 (USICA) and the America COMPETES Act to include language prohibiting new renewable energy projects receiving federal funds from purchasing materials, technology or critical minerals sourced in the People's Republic of China or the Russian Federation. Sullivan offered the motion to ensure the United States has a robust… Continue Reading
04.29.22
Sullivan Recognizes Teresa Gray as “Alaskan of the Week”
WASHINGTON-On the floor of the U.S. Senate yesterday, Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) recognized Teresa Gray, of Anchorage, the founder of Mobile Medics International, a nonprofit that dispatches medical professionals to hard-to-reach communities across the globe to assist victims of natural disasters and war. The organization now has 120 volunteer members, including several Alaskans, who have treated more than 30,000 people on five continents. Gray recently received a "CNN Hero" award for her w… Continue Reading
04.29.22
House Passes Sullivan’s American Fisheries Advisory Committee Act
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, welcomed House passage this week of S. 497, the American Fisheries Advisory Committee Act, bipartisan legislation he introduced to create an industry-led committee to assist in the administration of fisheries marketing, research, and development grants. The bill was cosponsored by Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Maria Cantwel… Continue Reading
04.26.22
BLM’s NPR-A Plan Harms American Energy Security, Ignores Alaskan Voices
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both R-Alaska, today slammed the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for reverting the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A) to the 2013 version of its Integrated Activity Plan (IAP). This shortsighted decision closes millions of acres to responsible energy development, deliberately upending a careful balance in the management of the reserve and more broadly across Alaska lands. The Biden administration's move abandons the 2020 version … Continue Reading
04.21.22
Secretary Haaland Announces New Delays & Complications for Alaska Native Vietnam-Era Veterans Seeking Allotments
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today disputed Interior Secretary Deb Haaland's claim that she is "[moving] expeditiously to deliver on [her] promise" to Alaska Native Vietnam-era veterans as she accepted a "Finding of No Significant Impact" (FONSI) from the acting Alaska Bureau of Land Management (BLM) director on the Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Alaska Native Vietnam-era Veterans Allotment Program. In accepting the FONSI, Secretary Haaland again declined to appr… Continue Reading
04.19.22
SPEECH: In Annual Address, Sullivan Invites Alaska Leaders to Unite with One Voice on Critical State-Federal Challenges
JUNEAU, ALASKA-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today delivered remarks to a joint session of the Alaska Legislature. In his seventh address since taking office, Sullivan discussed several areas of opportunity where Alaskans of all political backgrounds can unite with one voice and advocate with the federal government on behalf of the state, including: effectively deploying significant infrastructure investments, approving the life-saving King Cove road to Cold Bay, upholding lawfully-issued… Continue Reading
04.18.22
Sullivan & Murkowski Ask Secretary Haaland to Correct Injustice, Approve Land Orders Needed for Alaska Native Vietnam-Era Veterans to Select Promised Allotments
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA-U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski (both R-Alaska) today sent a letter to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, in advance of her first visit to Alaska this week, asking the secretary to expeditiously allow the Alaska Native Vietnam-era Veterans Land Allotment Program to proceed. Specifically, the senators are requesting the secretary lift the Public Land Orders (PLOs) that would make over 28-million acres of federal land available for selection by eligible veterans or the… Continue Reading
04.17.22
OP-ED: Sullivan and Inupiaq Leader: As Interior Secretary Visits Alaska, Here’s What We’d Like Her to Say.
by Harry Brower and Dan Sullivan
As many Alaskans know, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland is visiting our state this coming week, including a visit to Utqiagvik. It's a commitment that she gave to Sen. Dan Sullivan prior to her confirmation, and we are heartened that she's living up to this commitment. Because of the power Interior secretaries have over our state, the relationship between the secretary and state leaders has at various times in history been strained. And many of the decisions that the Interior Department, o… Continue Reading
04.13.22
Sullivan, Speier, Murkowski Call on Army Secretary to Address High Alaska Servicemember Suicide Rate
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support, Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), chair of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel, and Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) have sent a letter to Army Secretary Christine Wormuth calling on the Army to do more to address the high incidence of service member deaths by suicide in Alaska and to take comprehensive actions to change the… Continue Reading
04.07.22
Chairman of Joint Chiefs Opposes Delisting Iran’s IRGC as Terrorist Organization
WASHINGTON-The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, appeared today before the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and said, in his personal opinion, he does not support delisting Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organization. Milley was responding to a question posed by U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the committee, who asked whether the Biden administration should concede the delisting in order to attain a new nuc… Continue Reading
04.07.22
Sullivan Votes Against Confirmation of Judge Jackson to Supreme Court
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today released the following statement after voting against the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve as the next associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. "Today, I voted against the confirmation of Judge Jackson to be an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. "As with all U.S. Supreme Court nominees, I thoroughly examine the individual's record, prior decisions, confirmation hearing transcripts, judicial philosophy, and … Continue Reading
04.06.22
ICYMI: Sullivan: Democrats Host Show Trial to Dodge Responsibility for Biden Price Hike
WASHINGTON-In a Senate Republican press conference this afternoon, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) called out House Democrats for conducting a "show trial" with senior executives from America's energy companies in an effort to shift blame for the energy crisis hurting working families. Sen. Sullivan: This is a Show Trial. Six Months Ago, Democrat House Members Were Telling Oil Executives to Produce Less Oil SULLIVAN: "If you're watching what's going on in the House right now, i… Continue Reading
04.06.22
NOAA Announces Marine Debris Foundation Board Members
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island), and Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey) today welcomed an announcement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on the twelve appointees to the inaugural Board of Directors of the new Marine Debris Foundation. The charitable and nonprofit foundation was established by Sullivan, Whitehouse, and Menendez's Save Our Seas 2.0 Act, the most comprehensive legislation ever passed by Congress to address… Continue Reading