Press Releases
Quick Passage of Sullivan/Scott CRUISE Act Blocked in Senate
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) today attempted to advance their Careful Resumption Under Improved Safety Enhancements (CRUISE) Act on the Senate floor, but Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) objected, preventing the bill from passing. The CRUISE Act, also introduced with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), would revoke the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) current "Conditional Sailing Order" on cruises and require the CDC to provide COVID-19 mitigation … Continue Reading
04.21.21
Sullivan Lauds Alaska Lawsuit Against CDC to Salvage Cruise Season
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today released the following statement regarding Governor Mike Dunleavy's (R-Alaska) announcement yesterday that the State of Alaska will join a Florida lawsuit against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) challenging the legal authority of the agency's Conditional Sailing Order (CSO), which is preventing coastal communities and cruise lines from planning to safely resume operations this summer. "Enough is enough. I fully support … Continue Reading
04.21.21
U.S. Space and Strategic Commanders Rebut Claim of Widespread Extremism in Military Ranks
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and a colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve, in a hearing yesterday asked the commanders of U.S. Space Command and U.S. Strategic Command if they were aware of widespread extremism in the ranks of the military. The question comes on the heels of a suggestion made last week by one of the senator's colleagues that as much as ten percent of America's military service members may ascribe to "violent… Continue Reading
04.19.21
Sullivan, Van Hollen Introduce China Reciprocity Legislation
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) today introduced the True Reciprocity Act of 2021, legislation to address the substantial imbalance in the relationship between the United States and China across a number of sectors, including diplomacy, trade, communications, and education. Specifically, the legislation directs the Biden administration to develop an in-depth report to Congress detailing the obstacles put in place by China to obstruct the free work of… Continue Reading
04.16.21
Delegation Tells Interior Department to Leave Politics out of Land Management Decisions
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young call on the Department of the Interior to fulfill its promises to Alaska and Alaska Natives after the Department's announcement that it will impose a two-year stay in the implementation of several new Public Land Orders (PLOs) in Alaska, despite the PLOs already being signed. These PLOs would have lifted withdrawal restrictions on 28 million acres of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land that have been in pla… Continue Reading
04.16.21
Senate Passes Sullivan-Cardin Resolution Recognizing U.S.-Mongolia Partnership
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today thanked their Senate colleagues for unanimously passing their resolution reaffirming the strategic partnership between the United States and Mongolia and recognizing the 30th anniversary of democracy in Mongolia. "For the past thirty years, the people of Mongolia have held the light of freedom high in a part of the world that needs it desperately, neighboring two o… Continue Reading
04.15.21
Sullivan Says Infrastructure Plan Must Include Permitting Reform
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), today joined several of his Republican colleagues in urging President Joe Biden to work with congressional Republicans on an infrastructure package, rather than proceeding on a strictly-partisan basis. Sullivan noted that the positive impacts of any major infrastructure plan will be blunted and delayed without modernizing the federal environmental permitting process, which hasn't… Continue Reading
04.15.21
Alaska Delegation Introduces Legislation to Provide Long Term Fiscal Stability for University of Alaska
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, introduced, in both the Senate and House of Representatives, the University of Alaska Fiscal Foundation Act. The legislation fulfills the University of Alaska's promise as a land grant university with sufficient lands to generate revenues that help support its students and operations. The University of Alaska (UA) currently has one of the smallest land endowments-just 110,000 acres-of any applicable instit… Continue Reading
04.13.21
Sens. Sullivan, Scott, Rubio Introduce CRUISE Act to Resume Cruise Line Operations
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) today introduced the Careful Resumption Under Improved Safety Enhancements (CRUISE) Act, which would revoke the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) current "Conditional Sailing Order" on cruises and require the CDC to provide COVID-19 mitigation guidance for cruise lines to resume safe operations. Representatives Don Young (R-Alaska) and María Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) will soon be… Continue Reading
04.13.21
Sen. Sullivan Blasts Unsubstantiated Claims of Widespread Extremism in Military Ranks
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and a Marine Corps Reserve Colonel who recently returned from training at Camp Lejeune, today criticized a suggestion made by one of his colleagues that as much as ten percent of America's military service members may ascribe to "violent extremist" or "white supremacist" ideology-an unsubstantiated claim that would amount to over 200,000 military personnel. The hearing witnesses-General Step… Continue Reading
04.07.21
Ketchikan Port Revitalization, Top Sullivan Priority, Funded at $18.7 Million
WASHINGTON-U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, welcomed an announcement today by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that the agency is awarding an $18,771,041 contract to rebuild the NOAA port facility in Ketchikan, Alaska, with completion expected by December 2022. The contract is a result of several years of work by Sen. Sullivan, including bipartisan work he and Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) did to secure… Continue Reading
04.05.21
Alaska Congressional Delegation Named Among Most Effective Lawmakers in the 116th Congress
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, all R-Alaska, were all identified by the Center for Effective Lawmaking (CEL) among the top ten most effective lawmakers in the 116th Congress. CEL, a non-partisan, joint partnership between the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt University provides an in-depth look at the effectiveness of individual lawmakers in Congress. In their recently released Legislative Effectiveness Scores (LES) and rankings for… Continue Reading
04.03.21
Murkowski, Sullivan Welcome Phase II CDC Guidance for Cruise Ship Industry
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska) today released the following statement after being briefed by Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on publication of the CDC's Framework for Conditional Sailing Order (CSO). The steps released today are required for the cruise ship industry to safely return to passenger operations as the successful distribution of COVID-19 vaccines brings the pandemic under greater control.… Continue Reading
03.26.21
Sullivan Headlines Atlantic Council Discussion on U.S.-China Relations
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was interviewed on Monday by the Atlantic Council's President and CEO Frederick Kempe regarding the senator's call for a long-term, bipartisan strategy to address the challenges posed by the rise of China. The Atlantic Council is a premier think tank focused on international affairs offering a forum to "[shape] policy choices and strategies to create a more free, secure, and prosperous world." To w… Continue Reading
03.26.21
Alaska Congressional Delegation Urges Biden Administration to Issue Clear Guidelines for Cruise Ship Industry Operations to Resume
WASHINGTON- U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, all R-Alaska, sent a letter with colleagues to Jeffrey Zients, the White House COVID response coordinator, urging the Biden administration to be more transparent and timely in their efforts to develop guidance for the resumption of operations for the cruise ship industry. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the cruise ship industry has continued to face a strict "No Sail" order, while many other trave… Continue Reading
03.25.21
SPEECH: Sullivan Cautions Colleagues Against Curtailing Legislative Filibuster
WASHINGTON-On the floor of the U.S. Senate this week, Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) urged his colleagues not to curtail the legislative filibuster-the 60-vote threshold necessary to advance legislation-and to consider the long-term ramifications of changing this foundational rule of debate in the Senate in exchange for short-term partisan benefits. Sen. Sullivan noted that when Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress and the presidency just a few years ago, but lacked a filibuster-pro… Continue Reading
03.25.21
Sullivan Honors Rod Boyce as “Alaskan of the Week”
WASHINGTON-On the floor of the U.S. Senate yesterday, Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) recognized Rod Boyce, of Fairbanks, the recently retired long-time editor of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and an avid dog musher. Boyce spent nearly his entire career, 35 years, ensuring that Alaskans stay connected and informed through local news. Since his retirement, Boyce has worked as a writer and public information officer at the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Senator Sulli… Continue Reading
03.24.21
SPEECH: Sullivan speaks on U.S.-China relations - March 24, 2021
Mr. President, I wanted to come down to the Senate floor for a couple reasons, but first I want to talk a little bit about what happened in Alaska last weekend--actually, a really important meeting between the United States and China, our senior diplomats, their senior diplomats. It took place in Anchorage, and let's just say the meeting was as frosty as the Alaska air. It was a tough meeting. The Chinese came out, kind of took a little advantage of being extra verbose in their opening st… Continue Reading
03.24.21
For Senate die-hards, no sweeter sound than ‘Alaskan of the Week’
by Chris Cioffi
When Sen. Dan Sullivan comes up on C-SPAN with his familiar sunset poster, a sigh of relief runs through Washington. "It's that time again," he says, standing next to a mountain scene aglow with orange, pink and purple. This is "Alaskan of the Week," the only speech in the Senate that elicits gleeful tweets from jaded floor watchers. They know what it means for the chamber - and pre-pandemic, their evening plans. Business is usually done and almost everyone is gone. The last thing left to … Continue Reading
03.23.21
Sullivan’s POWER Act Leads to 75 Pro Bono Legal Summits Reaching 43,000 Americans in 2020
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today welcomed a report from the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, which detailed 75 events promoting pro bono legal services for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault that were held in 2020 in 75 judicial districts across the country, reaching over 43,000 Americans. These summits were organized pursuant to the Pro Bono Work to Empower and Represent (POWER) Act, Sullivan's legislation that was signed into law in 2018. T… Continue Reading