Mr. President, I want to come down to the floor and talk about the issue that is certainly the focus of America and the world right now, and that is Ukraine, and that is the President’s State of the Union Address, which will be a very important one tonight. And I know that Americans all […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today issued the following statement on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “We need to fully understand the broader implications of this invasion of Ukraine. We have entered a new era of authoritarian aggression, led by Russia and China’s dictators, who are increasingly isolated and dangerous, driven by historical grievances, paranoid about their […]
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, all R-Alaska, today released the following statements in response to the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) court filing to reopen the Record of Decision for the Ambler Mining District Industrial Access Road project (Ambler Road). This project—which began permitting during the Obama administration—received […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, all (R-Alaska), introduced bicameral legislation to provide a one year extension of the Alaska Tourism Restoration Act (ATRA), which was signed into law inMay 2021. Under the Passenger Vessel Services Act (PVSA), foreign vessels must stop at a foreign port when traveling between U.S. ports. While Canada’s […]
WASHINGTON—On the floor of the U.S. Senate yesterday, Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) recognized Doug Keil, of Anchorage, a para-alpine skier who was the first American man ever to win a gold medal at the Paralympic Games when he competed in Norway in 1980. After his historic wins, Keil returned to Alaska and spent the next 30 years building the structures, […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today attempted to pass the U.S-Russian Federation Seafood Reciprocity Act by unanimous consent, but the bill was blocked by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.). Sullivan’s legislation, introduced last week with Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), seeks to establish reciprocity in the U.S.-Russian seafood trading relationship by imposing a ban on the import of all […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, all R-Alaska, yesterday welcomed a $30 million investment in Alaska’s seafood industry by the Department of Agriculture (USDA). This funding, made available under the Seafood Processors Pandemic Response and Safety Block Grant Program (SPRS), will help defray costs incurred by seafood processing facilities and […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today highlighted the inclusion of a provision in the newly-introduced Never Yielding Europe’s Territory (NYET) Act that directs the federal government to prohibit Russian seafood imports to the U.S. The NYET Act would provide critical support to Ukraine to defend itself and deter Russian aggression, while also imposing real costs on the Kremlin for its ongoing and potential future aggression […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) introduced the Guarding Mental Health Act, legislation which would require the commandant of the Coast Guard to establish an interim behavioral health policy for members of the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) that achieves parity with the policies of the Department of […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski (both R-Alaska) this week introduced the U.S-Russian Federation Seafood Reciprocity Act, legislation that would impose a ban on the import of all Russian seafood products into the United States in response to Russia’s own prohibition on the import of U.S. and other western seafood products since 2014. Russia enacted […]