ANCHORAGE, ALASKA—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) led a bipartisan group of senators—including Senators Jon Tester (D-Mont.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)—in announcing the introduction of their Rural and Frontier Telehealth Expansion Act. The bipartisan legislation would increase Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) funding for telehealth services in frontier […]
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) joined Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) in sending a letter to the U.S. Trade Representative, Ambassador Katherine Tai, highlighting the importance of reconvening trade agreement talks with Taiwan. Sen. Sullivan recently led a bipartisan visit to East Asia that included a stop in Taipei where the delegation announced […]
WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, all R-Alaska, announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded over $20 million to the Robert Curtis Memorial Airport in Noorvik and the Togiak Airport in Togiak Village. The funding was made available under the FAA’s Airport Improvement Program (AIP), which allocates funding for airports […]
WASHINGTON—On the floor of the U.S. Senate on Thursday, Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) recognized Lydia Jacoby, of Seward, a young Alaskan swimmer who will be representing the United States at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in July. Jacoby, just 17 years old, recently swam the season’s second-fastest women’s 100-meter in the world at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha, Nebraska. Sen. […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), led a press conference yesterday with several of his Senate Republican colleagues, including SASC Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), calling on President Joe Biden to prioritize national defense and homeland security in the administration’s budget proposals. According to the Washington Post, the president’s […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, all R-Alaska, today welcomed a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Yellen v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation that upholds the decades-long inclusion of Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs) as “Indian tribes” under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (ISDA)—also known as ISDEAA, confirming ANC […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Angus King (I-Maine), along with Representatives Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.) and Elaine Luria (D-Va.) in the House of Representatives, today introduced the Arctic Security Initiative Act of 2021, legislation requiring the Department of Defense (DOD) to conduct a security assessment of the Arctic region and establish an Arctic Security Initiative (ASI) […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) last night called on President Joe Biden to withdraw his nomination of Tracy Stone-Manning to serve as the next director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Sen. Sullivan argued that Stone-Manning is unfit to serve due to her troubling history with Earth First!, a radical environmental group involved in […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and Congressman Don Young, all R-Alaska, today issued the following statements after the Biden administration published its Agenda of Regulatory Actions calling for repeal of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) final rule, published in October 2020, “Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation; National Forest System Lands in Alaska,” to exempt the Tongass […]
WASHINGTON—On the floor of the U.S. Senate yesterday, Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) recognized Michael Martinez, of Anchorage, a young Alaskan innovator, the winner of several prestigious science awards and competitions, and a student at the University of Alaska Anchorage and the Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program. Martinez, just 21 years old, is currently working on a new sustainable method of […]