WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today called on John Kerry, U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, to resign if press reports are accurate that the former secretary of state disclosed more than 200 covert attacks by Israel against Iranian interests in Syria. The report comes from an […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) joined Greta Van Susteren on Full Court Press this weekend to discuss a range of issues, including President Joe Biden’s upcoming address to a joint session of Congress, the Biden administration’s job-killing climate plan, efforts to get the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to finally issue health and safety guidance […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today joined Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in introducing legislation to improve the quality and timeliness of federal permitting and review processes with respect to critical mineral production on federal land. Sens. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), James Risch (R-Idaho), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), and Mike Crapo […]
WASHINGTON—General Frank McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), yesterday affirmed the importance of domestic energy production to America’s national security and foreign policy objectives, and said policies that curtail U.S. energy production are “not helpful.” The question was posed by Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), who […]
WASHINGTON—On the floor of the U.S. Senate today, and in honor of ongoing Earth Day celebrations, Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) recognized Beth Trowbridge, of Homer, the executive director of the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies (CACS). Trowbridge has spent the last 40 years advocating for Alaska’s wilderness and wildlife, cleaning up the oceans and shorelines plagued by marine debris, and educating […]
WASHINGTON—Last week, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) hosted a virtual meeting with the leadership of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Marine Debris Program and program directors of organizations from across Alaska to discuss their marine debris clean-up projects and how the Sullivan-authored, bipartisan Save Our Seas 2.0 Act (SOS) is advancing these efforts. Signed into law in […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Rep. Don Young issued the following statement after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the department is making available 22,000 temporary, non-agriculture worker visas through the H-2B visa program: “The H-2B visa program is crucial to on-shore fish processors in Alaska and to our national seafood supply. […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) today attempted to advance their Careful Resumption Under Improved Safety Enhancements (CRUISE) Act on the Senate floor, but Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) objected, preventing the bill from passing. The CRUISE Act, also introduced with Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), would revoke the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) current “Conditional […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today released the following statement regarding Governor Mike Dunleavy’s (R-Alaska) announcement yesterday that the State of Alaska will join a Florida lawsuit against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) challenging the legal authority of the agency’s Conditional Sailing Order (CSO), which is preventing coastal communities and cruise lines from planning […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and a colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve, in a hearing yesterday asked the commanders of U.S. Space Command and U.S. Strategic Command if they were aware of widespread extremism in the ranks of the military. The question comes on the […]