Press Releases
Sullivan Recognizes Doug Keil as “Alaskan of the Week”
WASHINGTON-On the floor of the U.S. Senate yesterday, Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) recognized Doug Keil, of Anchorage, a para-alpine skier who was the first American man ever to win a gold medal at the Paralympic Games when he competed in Norway in 1980. After his historic wins, Keil returned to Alaska and spent the next 30 years building the structures, organizations and culture necessary to create opportunities for other Paralympic athletes. In 1980, Keil founded Challenge Alaska, a nonprof… Continue Reading
02.17.22
Senate Democrats Defend Russian Ban on U.S. Seafood Imports
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today attempted to pass the U.S-Russian Federation Seafood Reciprocity Act by unanimous consent, but the bill was blocked by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.). Sullivan's legislation, introduced last week with Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), seeks to establish reciprocity in the U.S.-Russian seafood trading relationship by imposing a ban on the import of all Russian seafood products into the United States in response to Russia's own prohibition on the impo… Continue Reading
02.17.22
Alaska Delegation Welcomes $30 Million to Support Alaska’s Seafood Industry, Help Recoup COVID-19 Losses
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, all R-Alaska, yesterday welcomed a $30 million investment in Alaska's seafood industry by the Department of Agriculture (USDA). This funding, made available under the Seafood Processors Pandemic Response and Safety Block Grant Program (SPRS), will help defray costs incurred by seafood processing facilities and vessels preparing for and responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. $30,694,746 in support from the SPRS Pro… Continue Reading
02.15.22
Sullivan Ban on Russian Seafood Imports Included in Senate GOP Sanctions Package
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today highlighted the inclusion of a provision in the newly-introduced Never Yielding Europe's Territory (NYET) Act that directs the federal government to prohibit Russian seafood imports to the U.S. The NYET Act would provide critical support to Ukraine to defend itself and deter Russian aggression, while also imposing real costs on the Kremlin for its ongoing and potential future aggression against Ukraine. The Sullivan-authored provision is base… Continue Reading
02.11.22
Senators Introduce Bill to Improve Coast Guard Behavioral Health Policies
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) introduced the Guarding Mental Health Act, legislation which would require the commandant of the Coast Guard to establish an interim behavioral health policy for members of the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) that achieves parity with the policies of the Department of Defense (DoD). Currently, the USCG has outdated policies with respect to personnel who come forward to seek trea… Continue Reading
02.11.22
Sullivan, Murkowski Introduce Bill to Ban Russian Seafood Imports
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski (both R-Alaska) this week introduced the U.S-Russian Federation Seafood Reciprocity Act, legislation that would impose a ban on the import of all Russian seafood products into the United States in response to Russia's own prohibition on the import of U.S. and other western seafood products since 2014. Russia enacted its embargo in response to a suite of sanctions the United States and its allies imposed following Russia's 2014 invasion of … Continue Reading
02.03.22
Sullivan Announces 2022 Military Service Academy Nominations
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today announced the names of 27 young Alaskans he nominated to the U.S. Military Service Academies. Sen. Sullivan made his selections with the help of an Academy Review Board comprised of nine members from across Alaska, many of whom are service academy graduates. The board reviewed applications, interviewed each of the applicants, and made recommendations to the senator. "I am honored to get to nominate yet another inspiring group of young Alask… Continue Reading
02.03.22
Sens. Sullivan, Scott Introduce Bill to Prevent Weaponization of OSHA
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) today introduced the OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard Clarification Act, legislation that would clarify the authority of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)'s emergency temporary standards following President Joe Biden's attempt to implement a federal vaccine mandate on private businesses thro… Continue Reading
02.01.22
Alaska Delegation Welcomes $32 Million Available to Alaska for Legacy Well Cleanup
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, all R-Alaska, released the following statements after the U.S. Department of the Interior announced that $1.15 billion is available for states to clean up orphaned oil and gas wells. The funding is available through the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act which was signed into law on November 15, 2021, with $32.2 million available for Alaska. "The failure to address legacy wells has long been an … Continue Reading
01.24.22
Delegation Reiterates Support for Tongass Roadless Exemption
Anchorage, Alaska-U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, all R-Alaska, today released the following joint statement as the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) closed the 60-day comment period for its proposal to reinstate the 2001 Roadless Rule on the Tongass National Forest. "Southeast Alaska deserves a sustainable economy, but the one-size-fits-all Roadless Rule works against that. It should never have been applied to Alaska, and it should not be re-applie… Continue Reading
01.21.22
Miss America Emma Broyles Honored as Sullivan’s “Alaskan of the Week”
WASHINGTON-On the floor of the U.S. Senate yesterday, Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) recognized Emma Broyles, of Anchorage, who was crowned the 100th Miss America in December of 2021-the first Alaskan and the first Korean-American ever to achieve the title. As Miss Alaska and a contestant in the Miss America pageant, Broyles has championed the cause of Special Olympics, as well as young Americans who suffer from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and related skin disorders. Broyles is cur… Continue Reading
01.21.22
Delegation Announces Disaster Declarations for Alaska Fisheries
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, all R-Alaska, today welcomed determinations from the Department of Commerce that fishery disasters have occurred in numerous Alaska fisheries, allowing Alaska fishermen to receive critical relief funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The funding can be distributed to fishermen and their crews, seafood processors, and research initiatives in the impacted regions. "Alaska's fish… Continue Reading
01.20.22
Sullivan Introduces S.T.A.N.D. with Taiwan Act
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today introduced the Sanctions Targeting Aggressors of Neighboring Democracies (STAND) with Taiwan Act of 2022, which would impose crippling, comprehensive economic and financial sanctions on China in the event that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) or its proxies initiate a military invasion of the island democracy of Taiwan. The suite of sanctions includes the targeting of Chinese Communis… Continue Reading
01.19.22
Sullivan, Young Announce $925 Million in Federal Investments for Alaska
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan and Congressman Don Young (both R-Alaska) today welcomed significant new federal investments in major Alaska infrastructure priorities, secured by years of work through the passage of various Water Resources Development Acts(WRDA), advocacy with the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), congressional hearings, and the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed into law last year. The allocations, announced by the Corps, include $250 million for the P… Continue Reading
01.18.22
SPEECH: Voting Rights Laws
Mr. President, last week, I gave a long, detailed speech on the topic that was at hand last week and is the topic, right now, that we are focusing on here in the U.S. Senate: voting rights and the majority leader's goal this week, as it was last week, to blow up the legislative filibuster. I believe it would be the first time in U.S. history that a majority leader would actually seek to do this--to blow up the legislative filibuster--which, in and of itself, says a lot. This would, of c… Continue Reading
01.14.22
Alaska Mental Health Trust Land Exchange Near Completion
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young all R-Alaska, welcomed the finalization of approximately 45 miles of permanent access easements, which mark the completion of a long-running land exchange between the Alaska Mental Health Trust (AMHT) and U.S. Forest Service (USFS). This final step follows more than twenty years of work, including significant leadership and support from the Alaska Congressional Delegation and the State of Alaska. "While … Continue Reading
01.13.22
Sullivan Welcomes SCOTUS Ruling Against Biden Vaccine Mandate for Businesses
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today issued the following statement praising a six-to-three ruling by the Supreme Court against the Biden administration's vaccine mandates for private employers. In December, Senators Sullivan and Mike Braun (R-Ind.), along with 182 of their congressional colleagues, filed an amicus brief with the court arguing that Congress did not give the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) the authority to impose a vaccine mandate. "Today is… Continue Reading
01.13.22
Delegation Welcomes Major Announcement on Denali Park Road
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, all R-Alaska, issued the following statements after Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced that $25 million from the bipartisan infrastructure law is being made available to expedite a solution for Denali Park Road access. The investment is one of the first that the Department of the Interior (DOI) has made under the infrastructure law. It is both timely and critical for Alaska, as the Denali Park Road… Continue Reading
01.13.22
Senate Democrats Block Bipartisan Bill to Sanction Putin’s Pipeline
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today voted with 54 of his colleagues for a bill to impose new sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, which runs between Russia and Germany via the Baltic Sea. The bipartisan majority of senators failed to meet the 60-vote threshold necessary for the legislation, introduced by Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), to pass the Senate. Sen. Sullivan spoke on the Senate floor shortly before… Continue Reading
01.12.22
Sullivan Calls Out Schumer & Biden’s Outrageous “Jim Crow 2.0” Smear
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) spoke on the Senate floor last night, calling out President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer for falsely accusing Republican-led states of instituting "Jim Crow 2.0" voting laws at the same time their own Democrat-led states lag behind in several key areas. Sullivan drew the comparison between voting laws in states represented by Democratic senators and his own state of Alaska, including on automatic voter registration, no-excuse … Continue Reading