WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), yesterday announced he intends to hold three senior Biden administration Defense Department nominees in response to the administration’s decision in February to stall the Ambler Mining District Industrial Access Road project in Alaska. The nominees will be in charge of the […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) celebrated today’s passage of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2022 on the Senate floor. The legislation includes key victories for Alaska infrastructure, including increased cost-sharing for the Nome Arctic Deep Draft Port (resulting in […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska) today announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is awarding over $116 million to improve high-speed internet access in numerous Alaska villages and communities. These grants were made possible by the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), led by Senator Murkowski. The grants come through USDA’s ReConnect Program, which aims to provide […]
WASHINGTON—Following the announcement by the Bureau of Economic Analysis that U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.9% in this year’s second quarter, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) released the following statement: “According to Biden’s own National Economic Council Director, today’s GDP numbers indicate we are in a recession,” Sen. Sullivan said. “I find it extremely concerning […]
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 […]