WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce’s Subcommittee on Security, and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) teamed up today to introduce legislation to help ports weather the coronavirus pandemic and future disasters. The bipartisan Maritime Transportation System Emergency Relief Act (MTSERA)would establish a first-of-its-kind comprehensive maritime emergency relief authority to provide […]
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Continuing his leadership efforts to address the non-reciprocal economic relationship between the United States and China, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) yesterday chaired a hearing of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Security entitled “The China Challenge: Realignment of U.S. Economic Policies to Build Resiliency and Competitiveness.” The hearing examined topics related to the Chinese […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) spoke on the Senate floor this afternoon highlighting Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) obstruction of legislation put forth earlier today to extend the current federal unemployment benefits for one week, while the Senate and the House continue to debate the next package of COVID-19 pandemic relief. Currently, […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – On the floor of the U.S. Senate yesterday, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) recognized five young Alaskans who rescued four people from a crashed Alaska Division of Forestry plane in a lake near Aniak in late May. The young men—Dylan Nicholson, 13 years old, Trevor Morgan and Mason Dallmann, both 17, A.J. Simeon, 19, and Skye Morgan, 18—sprung into […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today voted with 85 of his colleagues to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2021, which authorizes $740.5 billion in critical defense spending and includes numerous Arctic and Alaska priorities championed by Sullivan. Provisions secured by Sullivan include $193 million in […]
Washington, DC – U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, today issued the following statements after the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its Record of Decision (ROD) for the Ambler Mining District Industrial Access Road project (Ambler Road). “Federal approval of the Ambler Road is both timely and significant for […]
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) testified yesterday before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs (SFOPS) regarding U.S. efforts to combat the global marine debris crisis and the Save Our Seas (SOS) 2.0 Act, legislation introduced by Sullivan, Whitehouse and Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) that passed the […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and chairman of the Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support, today commended the U.S. Air Force for releasing the first service-specific strategy for the Arctic. The Air Force’s Arctic Strategy document, which builds on the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Arctic Strategy, […]
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan and Congressman Don Young (all R-Alaska) today welcomed an announcement from the U.S. Department of Commerce that the Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $5.3 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance to the State of Alaska to administer a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) to provide critical financing […]
ANCHORAGE, AK – U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today commented on much-needed funding received by Fairbanks Memorial Hospital as a result of a special carve-out intended to capture overlooked rural facilities that have been advocated for by Senator Sullivan, his team, and the staff of Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. “Fairbanks Memorial Hospital is a critical health care […]