WASHINGTON—Madam President, today, actually, I want to talk about the Americans of the century, the Americans of the century. This is an iconic, iconic picture of the men–and, of course, women–who built our great Nation: the working families, the union members who built our great Nation, won World War II. This is, by the way, […]
WASHINGTON—On the floor of the U.S. Senate yesterday, Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) recognized Betsy Lawer, the board chair, CEO and president of First National Bank Alaska, which is celebrating 100 years since its founding. Betsy is a member of the storied Cuddy family, which purchased a controlling interest in the bank by the early 1940s and helped grow it into […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) this week called out Senate Democrats for blocking a bill offered by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) that would direct the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) to determine whether any executive order or action taken by the Biden administration has caused or contributed to the recent spike in energy prices. Senate […]
WASHINGTON—On CNBC Squawk Box this morning, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) called President Joe Biden’s recent trip to Saudi Arabia a failure due to the president’s inability to secure commitments from the Saudis to ramp up oil and gas production. Sullivan argued that the president’s domestic energy policies—blocking energy infrastructure, pressing the financial sector to blackball American energy, and […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) spoke on the Senate floor recently about a joint resolution of disapproval he introduced under the Congressional Review Act (CRA), with all 49 of his Senate Republican colleagues, to nullify the Biden administration’s new National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulation. In his speech, Sullivan argued that the new NEPA rules will further bog down the already-onerous federal […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Robert Portman (R-Ohio), and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, asking them to immediately expedite shipments of military equipment to Ukraine as appropriated by Congress under the Additional Ukraine […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) yesterday urged President Joe Biden and his administration to expeditiously advance the Willow Project, a large oil and gas project in the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska (NPR-A) that is overwhelmingly supported by Alaskans, particularly statewide Alaska Native leaders and those who reside on Alaska’s North Slope. The Biden administration’s […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) joined Larry Kudlow on Fox Business Network yesterday and criticized President Joe Biden for begging dictators around the world—this week, in Saudi Arabia—to produce more oil when states, like Alaska, have untapped resources waiting to be produced by American workers. The senator called on the president to send envoys to Alaska and Texas—not the dictators […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) yesterday introduced S.J. Res. 55, a joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act(CRA), with all 49 of his Senate Republican colleagues to nullify the Biden administration’s new regulation, “National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Implementing Regulations Revisions,” that will further bog down the already-onerous federal permitting process and add further delay to building vital […]
WASHINGTON—Madam President, I want to talk about two other issues today that I care deeply about–I think most Senators do, and certainly Americans do–and that is two things that our country desperately needs: infrastructure and energy. Infrastructure and energy–and we all know that this is what is needed. We talk about it here a lot […]