WASHINGTON—On the floor of the U.S. Senate yesterday, Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) recognized Beth Bragg, of Anchorage, who retired recently after a 35-year-long career covering sports for the Anchorage Daily News. Bragg has covered Alaska’s diverse sports scene and events, from the Iditarod to the World Eskimo Indian Olympics, as well as Alaska’s many heroes, from Kikkan Randall, to Tommy Moe, […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), and Representatives Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) and Don Young (R-Alaska)—champions of the 2020 Save Our Seas (SOS) 2.0 Act, the most comprehensive marine debris legislation ever—today welcomed a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine entitled “Reckoning with the U.S. Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste.” […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), ranking member of the Senate Commerce subcommittee with oversight of the Coast Guard, today introduced the Arctic Focus Act, legislation to ensure the historic investments being made in the Arctic achieve their intended benefits for the United States, including improving America’s ability to operate in the Arctic, securing economic opportunities as […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today issued the following statement regarding President Biden’s decision to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an attempt to tame skyrocketing gas prices. “The Biden administration’s incompetent and schizophrenic energy policies continue, and America’s working families are paying the price. Since Day 1, this administration has purposely sought […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both R-Alaska, introduced updated legislation to allow the Alaska Native communities of Haines, Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, and Tenakee to form urban corporations and receive land entitlements under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). The five Southeast communities were not included in ANCSA, which divided 44 million acres […]
WASHINGTON–U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, all R-Alaska, issued the following statements after the U.S. Forest Service announced it will attempt to re-impose near-blanket restrictions on road construction and other economic activities across millions of acres of the Tongass National Forest. The Forest Service will seek to do this by […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) issued the following statement after passage of the Democrats’ reckless tax and spending bill in the House of Representatives. “The out-of-control spending being driven by radical far-left Democrats is going to do real, lasting damage to our economy. It’s going to have a huge cost for our country and American […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, (all R-Alaska) today sharply criticized the House of Representatives’ passage of a partisan reconciliation bill that would repeal the oil and gas program for the non-wilderness portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). That provision is among several in the bill that would […]
WASHINGTON—Today, the formal challenge against President Biden’s vaccine mandate under the Congressional Review Act has been filed by all 50 Republican senators: Dan Sullivan, Mike Braun, Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, Bill Hagerty, Roger Marshall, Mike Lee, James Lankford, Rick Scott, Marsha Blackburn, Rand Paul, Cynthia Lummis, Shelley Moore Capito, Marco Rubio, John Barrasso, Cindy Hyde-Smith, John Thune, […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) spoke with Joe Kernen this morningon CNBC’s Squawk Box about the American Energy, Jobs & Climate Plan, the senator’s innovative clean energy and climate strategy that has the potential to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by up to 40 percent from today’s levels by 2050 and create thousands of jobs for hard-working Americans. Senators Sullivan, Kevin […]