Press Releases
Sullivan, Hirono, Introduce Bill to Reunite Korean Americans with Long-Separated Family Members in North Korea
WASHINGTON, DC - This week, U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) introduced S.3395, the bipartisan Korean War Divided Families Reunification Act, legislation directing the U.S. Department of State to prioritize helping divided Korean American families reunite with family members in North Korea. Since the signing of the Korean War Armistice Agreement on July 27, 1953, there has been little to no contact between Korean Americans and family members who remain in No… Continue Reading
03.05.20
Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Passes Senate
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A new strain of coronavirus, designated as COVID-19, emerged in China in December and has spread around the globe. The virus, which causes respiratory illness, has now been detected in nearly 70 countries, including the United States. In an effort to better prevent, prepare for, and respond to COVID-19, the Senate today passed an emergency supplemental funding package totaling $8.3 billion. U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) voted in favor of the Coron… Continue Reading
03.05.20
Senate Passes Reauthorization of the Older Americans Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Earlier this week, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Supporting Older Americans Act, bipartisan legislation cosponsored by Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and authored by Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.). The legislation reauthorizes the Older Americans Act (OAA) for another five years. The safety-net program was first enacted in 1965 and ensures seniors have access to needed services as they age. Alaska is slated to receive approximately $4.8 millio… Continue Reading
03.04.20
Sullivan Chairs Hearing on America’s Military Readiness in the Arctic
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) yesterday chaired a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support on U.S. military policy and posture in support of readiness in the Arctic. The committee heard testimony from Dr. James H. Anderson, who is performing the duties of the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, and General Terrance O'Shaughnessy, Commander of U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) and the North American Aerospace Defense… Continue Reading
03.04.20
Sullivan Praises Passage of Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act
WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation, today praised the Senate's recent passage of the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 during a committee hearing on 5G supply chain security. Senator Sullivan is an original co-sponsor of the Senate version of the bipartisan legislation, which is intended to protect American communications networks from threats presented by foreign suppliers, such… Continue Reading
03.03.20
POLITICO: Senator slams lack of port infrastructure in the Arctic
by SARAH CAMMARATA
The chairman of a Senate Armed Services subcommittee sounded the alarm Tuesday on what he said is practically nonexistent port infrastructure in the Arctic, even though the Defense Department's Arctic strategy calls for enhancing port capability in the far north. Sen. Dan Sullivan noted that legislation from his subcommittee on readiness, as well as provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act, has long addressed a lack of strategic ports, specifically in the Arctic. The Alaska Republic… Continue Reading
02.28.20
Sullivan Honors Alaskan of the Week: Petty Officer Evan Grills
WASHINGTON, D.C. - On the floor of the U.S. Senate yesterday, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) recognized U.S. Coast Guard Petty OfficerEvan Grills, who serves at the U.S. Coast Guard Base in Kodiak, Alaska. Petty Officer Grills rescued two crew members from the Scandies Rosecrabbing vessel, which sank late in the night on New Year's Eve, December 31, 2019, 170 miles southwest of Kodiak amid 40-knot winds, 30-foot-high swells and a frigid temperature of ten degrees Fahrenheit. Sadly, five me… Continue Reading
02.28.20
Alaska Congressional Delegation Announces Earthquake Relief Grant
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, (all R-Alaska), today announced a $33.5 million grant coming to Alaska to assist communities impacted by the magnitude 7.1 earthquake on November 30, 2018. The U.S. Department of Transportation grant was awarded to the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities to assist the Municipality of Anchorage, Mat-Su Borough, and the Kenai Peninsula Borough with the repair or reconstruction of highway… Continue Reading
02.28.20
Sullivan & Murkowski Direct Feds on Flowers: “Buy American!”
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), and Angus King (I-Maine) yesterday introduced the American Grown Act, legislation requiring all federal agencies to only procure cut flowers and cut greens grown in the United States. Congressman Don Young (R-Alaska) first introduced the legislation in the House in May of 2019. "Alaska has a burgeoning peony and flower industry that offers world-class blooms during our long, sunny sum… Continue Reading
02.28.20
Sullivan Cosponsors Modernization of the Older Americans Act
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) has signed on as a cosponsor of the Modernization of the Older Americans Act Amendments, legislation that reauthorizes the Older Americans Act (OAA) for another four years. The safety-net program was first enacted in 1965 and ensures seniors have access to needed services as they age. Alaska is slated to receive approximately $4.8 million in federal funding for Fiscal Year 2020. This reauthorization includes a seven percent increase in progra… Continue Reading
02.27.20
Alaska Congressional Delegation Welcome Disaster Relief for Alaska Fisheries
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, (all R-Alaska), today welcomed an announcement by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that the agency approved $24.4 million to restore losses for Alaska fisheries impacted by the 2018 Pacific cod fishery disaster and $10.3 million for the 2018 sockeye salmon failure in Chignik. The NOAA-approved funds will now be administered by the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, the age… Continue Reading
02.26.20
Sullivan Raises Concerns On Overly Expansive Humpback Whale Habitat Designation
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) sent a letter this month to Dr. Neil Jacobs, acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere - the acting National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Administrator - urging the revision of a proposed rule, issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), designating critical habitat for humpback whales in the North Pacific. Specifically, Sullivan asks Dr. Jacobs to exclude much of Alaska's coastal areas, particu… Continue Reading
02.26.20
ICYMI: Sullivan Discusses Iwo Jima 75th Anniversary on Fox News
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) yesterday joined The Story with Martha MacCallum on Fox News Channel to discuss the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. Sullivan, a Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, is an original cosponsor of a Senate resolution recognizing the valor and heroism exhibited by America's service members, led by the United States Marine Corps, in defeating Imperial Japan on the small island, resulting in more than 26,000 Amer… Continue Reading
02.25.20
Sullivan Receives Disabled American Veterans’ Legislator of the Year Award
WASHINGTON, DC - Disabled American Veterans (DAV), a more than one million member veterans service organization (VSO), this week presented U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) with its 2020 Outstanding Senate Legislator of the Year Award. Earlier today, Sullivan, a member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, heard from the DAV national leadership in a committee hearing on the organization's legislative priorities for the coming year. DAV has identified the Veterans Burn Pits Exposure Recogn… Continue Reading
02.24.20
Sullivan’s POWER Act Leads to 100 Pro Bono Legal Summits in 2019
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today welcomed a report from the Administrative Office of the United States Courts detailing 100 public events promoting pro bono legal services for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault that were held in 2019 in 86 judicial districts across the country in accordance with the Pro Bono Work to Empower and Represent (POWER) Act, Sullivan's legislation that was signed into law in 2018. The POWER Act mandates that each year for four y… Continue Reading
02.14.20
NORTHCOM Commander Highlights Alaska’s Importance to Homeland Defense
WASHINGTON, DC - In a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee this week, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) received strong support for Arctic and Alaska-specific defense priorities from General Terrance O'Shaughnessy, the U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) commander, and Admiral Charles Richard, the U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) commander. During the hearing, General O'Shaughnessy agreed with many of Senator Sullivan's Arctic priorities, including the need for additional missile … Continue Reading
02.13.20
Delegation Responds to Misguided Letter Seeking to Undermine Investment in Alaska
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, sent a letter this week to the chief executives of 11 major banks in response to a misguided letter that a number of their Democratic colleagues sent in late January. The delegation's letter calls out mischaracterizations being made as part of an effort to deter investment in responsible energy production in a small part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Below is an excerpt from the letter: "U… Continue Reading
02.12.20
Senate Confirms Joshua Kindred to Serve as Alaska District Court Judge
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, with the support of U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska), the U.S. Senate confirmed Joshua Kindred to serve as a United States District Court Judge for the District of Alaska. Before the confirmation vote, Senators Murkowski and Sullivan spoke on the Senate floor in support of Kindred's confirmation. "Josh Kindred's experience in civil, criminal, and administrative law, at both the state and federal levels, in both the public sector as well as th… Continue Reading
02.11.20
Sullivan, Van Hollen Introduce China Reciprocity Legislation
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Security, and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) today introduced the True Reciprocity Act of 2020, 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 Trump administration to develop an in-depth report to Congress detaili… Continue Reading
02.11.20
Sullivan Applauds $20 Million Infrastructure Development Grant for Port of Alaska
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has awarded a $20 million Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) grant to the Port of Alaska, located in Anchorage. "I want to thank Secretary Chao for recognizing the dire state of one of Alaska's most important pieces of infrastructure and heeding the call of Alaskans by approving this much-needed PIDP grant," said Senator Sullivan. "The Port of Alaska not only serve… Continue Reading