Press Releases
Sullivan: “Democrats Are in Disarray” on $3.5 Trillion Tax-and-Spend Spree
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) said yesterday that "Democrats are in disarray" regarding their plan to advance a $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill. In his interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business Network, Sen. Sullivan also criticized Senate Democrats for not holding a single committee hearing or mark-up in advance of a vote, providing the American people with no transparency on this largest-in-a-generation spending package. On Monday, Sen. Sullivan spoke on the Senate f… Continue Reading
09.29.21
ICYMI: Sullivan Reacts to Tense Afghanistan Hearing with General Milley, Secretary Austin
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), spoke with Brian Kilmeade on Fox News Primetime last night and Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business Network this morning regarding the senator's tense exchanges in a SASC hearing with General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin about the total lack of accountability within the Biden administration for the botched withdrawal of U.S. forces and citi… Continue Reading
09.28.21
Sullivan Demands Answers, Accountability from Senior Biden & Pentagon Officials Following Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal in Tense Hearing
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), in a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) today, demanded accountability from the most senior military leaders and defense officials in the Biden administration for the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan that left hundreds of Americans and thousands of America's Afghan allies stranded, and has resulted in a safe haven for global terrorism in the country once again. Sen. Sullivan first asked each of the witnesses about President… Continue Reading
09.28.21
Sullivan, Risch and Colleagues Introduce Comprehensive Afghanistan Legislation
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), along with 21 of their Senate colleagues, yesterday introduced the Afghanistan Counterterrorism, Oversight, and Accountability Act, legislation to address the outstanding issues related to the Biden administration's rushed and disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. "The consequences of President Biden's botched withdrawal from Afghanistan are devastating: The faith of our allies has weakened, our adversaries have been em… Continue Reading
09.27.21
SPEECH: Democrats' Tax and Spending Spree
Mr. President, I want to talk about transparency, and I want to talk about the need for transparency here in the U.S. Senate more than ever. The House and the Senate are moving with breakneck speed to pass one of the biggest, most reckless spending social bills in U.S. history, over $3.5 trillion--a spending spree that will be the largest in a generation--which will include the largest tax hike that we have seen in peacetime and something that the majority leader himself has called the largest … Continue Reading
09.23.21
SPEECH: Biden's Afghanistan Debacle
Mr. President, there have been a lot of discussions on the floor today--and I fully support them--about an important, important role of the U.S. Senate that we need to take on with regard to our oversight responsibility of what the entire country has recently observed as a fiasco, debacle, with regard to foreign policy in Afghanistan that is going to have consequences for years. Like all of us, I was home over August when all of these images on TV were unfolding. And I will tell you, I d… Continue Reading
09.21.21
Sullivan, Schatz, Murkowski, Hirono Introduce Bill to Make Cost-Of-Living Adjustment For Alaska, Hawaii Nursing Facilities
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawai'i) today reintroduced legislation that will provide for fair Medicare payments for nursing facilities in Hawai'i and Alaska. The bipartisan Equitable Payments for Nursing Facilities Act will authorize a cost-of-living adjustment at skilled nursing facilities in those states to take into account the higher costs of delivering care. "As the largest state in the coun… Continue Reading
09.17.21
Sullivan, Rubio, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Designate Taliban as a Foreign Terrorist Organization
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) were joined by Senators Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) in introducing the Preventing Recognition of Terrorist States Act, which directs the U.S. secretary of state to designate the illegitimate "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" as a state sponsor of terrorism, and the Taliban as a terrorist organization. The bill would also impose sanctions agains… Continue Reading
09.16.21
Sullivan, Braun, Hagerty, Marshall, Lee Oppose Biden Vaccine Mandate and Demand Congressional Review
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), along with Congressman Fred Keller (R-Pa.), are demanding congressional review of President Biden's recent vaccine mandate on private employees before it goes into effect. Last week, President Joe Biden issued vaccine and testing mandates for private businesses with more than 100 employees, affecting more than 80 million Americans and threatening $14,000 f… Continue Reading
09.15.21
Sullivan, Lee & Tuberville Introduce Bill Requiring Senate Vote for CDC Director
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) yesterday introduced the Restoring Trust in Public Health Act, which would require that nominees for director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) be confirmed by the United States Senate. Recently, the CDC has impacted the lives of hundreds of millions of Americans through its COVID-19 guidelines and eviction moratorium, all under directors who have not been confirmed by the Sena… Continue Reading
09.15.21
ICYMI: Sullivan Discusses Briefing on Biden’s Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), spoke at a press conference yesterday with seven of his Senate colleagues after participating in a classified briefing with testimony from General Austin Scott Miller, the former commander of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, regarding the Biden administration's botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. Sen. Sullivan also discussed the briefing with Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino on Fox News Channel's America… Continue Reading
09.10.21
Alaska Delegation Responds to EPA’s Announcement to Reinstate the 404(c) Determination Process
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, all R-Alaska, issued the following statements after the EPA announced it is seeking to reinstate the process to make a Clean Water Act Section 404(c) determination over what it the agency called an effort to "protect certain waters in Bristol Bay, Alaska." "A year ago, the Army Corps of Engineers denied a section 404 permit for the proposed Pebble mine project. This denial came after years of study, including t… Continue Reading
09.09.21
Sullivan, Colleagues Call for Hearings on Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), along with eight of their colleagues on the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), sent a letter yesterday to SASC Chairman Jack Reed (D-R.I.) calling on him to exercise the committee's authority by holding hearings on the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Specifically, the senators requested sworn testimony from senior military leaders, including Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chie… Continue Reading
09.01.21
Sullivan Warns America’s Adversaries Will “Test” Biden Administration Following Afghanistan Debacle
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, joined Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino on Fox News Channel's America's Newsroom this morning to discuss the aftermath of the Biden administration's full withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan on Monday, with hundreds of Americans still in the Taliban-controlled country. In the interview, Sen. Sullivan warned that America's adversaries, like Russia and China, will likely "test" the United Stat… Continue Reading
08.31.21
Sullivan Demands Answers from Biden Officials on Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan demanding answers on why the Biden administration chose the seemingly arbitrary date of August 31st to withdraw all U.S. military forces from Afghanistan, even though American citizens remain trapped in the Taliban-controlled country. Below is the full text… Continue Reading
08.30.21
Sullivan: President Biden Has Forsaken Hundreds of Americans in Afghanistan
KETCHIKAN, ALASKA-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today released the following statement after the departure of the last U.S. military personnel from Afghanistan while hundreds of U.S. citizens remain behind in the country, now controlled by the Taliban. "I never thought I'd see the day when the U.S. government would knowingly leave behind hundreds of its own citizens-who wanted to be rescued by the U.S. military-in one of the most d… Continue Reading
08.21.21
Sullivan to Biden: Get Our Citizens Trapped in Afghanistan Out Now
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), spoke with Charles Payne on Fox News Channel this morning about the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan following the Biden administration's botched withdrawal of U.S. forces and personnel. Sen. Sullivan called on President Biden to level with the American people about his responsibility for the debacle taking place in Afghanistan, to assure U.S. veterans of Afghanistan and their families that thei… Continue Reading
08.20.21
Alaska Delegation Condemns Court Ruling on Alaska’s North Slope Willow Project
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, all R-Alaska, released the following statements in response to an Order of the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska scraping an essential permit for the Willow Project, a multi-billion dollar expansion of ConocoPhillips's oil and gas operations in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A). The Willow Project was approved only after years of analysis and public input, including a robust environmenta… Continue Reading
08.17.21
Sullivan Names Experienced Alaskan Chad Padgett as New State Director
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today announced the appointment of Chad Padgett as the new state director for his Alaska Senate office. "With nearly three decades spent working to improve the lives of everyday Alaskans, Chad Padgett has a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities we have in Alaska," said Senator Sullivan. "Chad brings with him a wealth of experience serving on the front lines looking out for the best interests of our communities and he will… Continue Reading
08.16.21
Senator Sullivan Responds to President Biden’s Speech on Afghanistan Debacle
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following statement in response to President Joe Biden's speech today on the unraveling situation in Afghanistan. "It has been a gut-wrenching few days for all Americans seeing our citizens being frantically ferried by helicopter in Kabul, echoing the tragic end of the Vietnam War. It did not have to be this way. President Biden chose to embark on a time-based withdrawal from A… Continue Reading