Press Releases
Sullivan Statement on Unidentified Object Shot Down in Alaska Airspace
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today released the following statement after an unidentified object flying in Alaska airspace was shot down by a U.S. fighter jet. "Like all Alaskans, I appreciate and am proud of the professional work of our Alaska-based military. Today's shoot-down of another unidentified object over Alaska takes skill, precision, discipline and proficiency. These exceptional Americans have been working ov… Continue Reading
02.10.23
Sullivan: America is Not Deterring China, But Biden Admin Can Change That
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) said he is urging Biden administration officials to reestablish deterrence with China in an interview on Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends this morning. Senator Sullivan told Fox's Steve Doocy that he raised the deterrence point to uniformed and civilian Pentagon officials at a classified briefing Thursday. The briefing covered the Chinese spy balloon that illegally entered American airspace over Alaska on January 28 and was later shot down off … Continue Reading
02.10.23
Sullivan Re-Introduces ROAR Act to Refill Strategic Reserve with American-Produced Petroleum
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) this week re-introduced the Replenishing Our American Reserves (ROAR) Act, legislation that would ensure that the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) only includes petroleum products produced in the United States, and the United States doesn’t sell petroleum products from the SPR to America’s adversaries, like China. “The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is meant to support our nation through major security crises—not to bail out a President’s … Continue Reading
02.09.23
Sullivan, Whitehouse, Menendez, Peters, Bonamici & Gonzalez-Colón Seek to Enhance Effectiveness of Marine Debris Program
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 Jenniffer González-Colón (R-Puerto Rico), today reintroduced legislation amending the 2020 Save Our Seas (SOS) 2.0 Act and the 2006 Marine Debris Act to provide the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) with greater flexibility to deliver federal resources and enter into cooperative agreements to conduct marine d… Continue Reading
02.09.23
Sullivan, Tester Lead Bipartisan Bill to Explore Medicinal Cannabis as an Alternative Treatment for Veterans
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) introduced bipartisan legislation today that pushes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to conduct research on the health effects of medicinal cannabis for veterans experiencing chronic pain and symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). "Our nation's veterans deserve options when it comes to treating the wounds of war, which is why VA needs to have a better understanding of how medicinal cannabis plays a r… Continue Reading
02.08.23
Sullivan Highlights Work to Revitalize State Economy in Annual Address to Alaska Legislature
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) yesterday delivered his annual address to a joint session of the Alaska Legislature in Juneau, Alaska. Sen. Sullivan focused on three overarching themes: revitalizing Alaska's economy and creating opportunities for good jobs for all Alaskans; addressing the social challenges of domestic violence and sexual assault, addiction, and mental health declines among Alaska youth; and utilizing Alaska's unique advantages and resources to help the United Sta… Continue Reading
02.08.23
Murkowski, Sullivan Lead Effort to Lift Outdated PLOs, Remove Barriers to Public Land Access in Alaska
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski, a senior member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska) have reintroduced S.175, which would codify the revocation of five Public Land Orders (PLOs), undoing the Biden administration's efforts to unfairly halt access to federal public lands in Alaska. This legislation would return nearly 28 million acres of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) territory in Alaska to "multiple use" status by lifting several PL… Continue Reading
02.07.23
SPEECH: Sen. Dan Sullivan Addresses the Alaska Legislature
Introduction Good morning, everybody. Thank you, Mr. President and Speaker Tilton. It's very much an honor to be back here. To all legislators-some of you new to me, some of you dear old friends-I just want to say, it's great to be back home with all of you! Things around here have changed some. There's a lot of young blood in the building-men and women who have entered the arena. Welcome. As Teddy Roosevelt told us in his famous speech, "Citizenship in a Republic," the arena is not a place fo… Continue Reading
02.06.23
Sullivan Recognizes Frank Hughes and Lincoln Bean as “Alaskans of the Week”
WASHINGTON-On the floor of the U.S. Senate last week, Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) recognized Frank Hughes and Lincoln Bean, Alaska Native leaders of the village of Kake, Alaska. Hughes and Bean led a years-long effort to repatriate 25 precious Native objects-baskets, a headdress, a replica of a canoe, ceremonial paddles, and rattles used by Tlingit spiritual medicine men-to their community from George Fox University in Oregon. The items had been taken from their village and were in storage a… Continue Reading
02.04.23
Sullivan Pressing Military, Administration Officials on Chinese Spy Balloon Incursion
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today released the following statement after a Chinese spy balloon was shot down by a U.S. fighter jet off the coast of South Carolina this afternoon. "I want to commend the skilled airmen who safely executed the mission to finally take down the Chinese spy balloon. "I have already begun pressing our senior military leaders and Biden administration officials on why this surveillance balloon… Continue Reading
02.03.23
Sens. Sullivan, Braun, 48 Senate Colleagues Challenge Biden Rule Politicizing Americans’ 401(k)s
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Mike Braun (R-Ind.), and 48 of theirSenate colleagues, will be introducing a bipartisan joint resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to overturn President Joe Biden's environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) rule, instituted last November, which allows retirement plan fiduciaries to use millions of Americans' retirement investments to push far-left political agendas instead of getting the best returns f… Continue Reading
02.03.23
ICYMI: Sullivan Says Alternative to the Willow Project Could be Dirty Venezuelan Oil
WASHINGTON-In an interview on Fox News Channel's America Reports yesterday, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) told Fox News host John Roberts that the Willow Project is far cleaner than imported oil from Venezuela, which the Biden Administration's recently allowed by the lifting of sanctions. As Senator Sullivan noted, Venezuelan oil is 18 times dirtier than the average American oil project. The Willow Project, whichreceived a Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (FSEIS) from th… Continue Reading
02.03.23
ICYMI: Sullivan Challenges Media to Report on Overwhelming Union, Alaska Native Support for Willow Project
WASHINGTON-In a speech on the Senate floor yesterday, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) criticized the media for coverage of the latest regulatory milestone for the Willow Project that excluded the voices and perspectives of unions and Alaska Native leaders who are overwhelmingly supportive of the development. Sullivan noted that environmental activist groups from the Lower 48 were quoted extensively in the national and local stories, while statements from the North America's Building Trades … Continue Reading
02.01.23
Sens. Sullivan, Cruz, Manchin, Colleagues Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Prohibit Sale of Oil from SPR to China
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Angus King (I-Maine), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.), and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) today introduced a bipartisan bill to prohibit the sale of A… Continue Reading
02.01.23
Alaska Delegation Welcomes Next-To-Last Step for Federal Re-Approval of Willow Project
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), and U.S. Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (D-Alaska), today welcomed the Department of the Interior's (DOI) release of a Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (FSEIS) for ConocoPhillips' Willow Project on Alaska's North Slope. "The Willow Project has earned very broad support from communities on the North Slope, Alaska Native leaders, labor unions, and stakeholders across the political spectrum. That's … Continue Reading
01.31.23
Sullivan Honored to Announce 2023 Military Service Academy Nominations
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today announced the names of 32 young Alaskans he nominated to the U.S. Military Service Academies. Senator Sullivan made his selections with the help of an Academy Review Board comprised of eleven members from across Alaska, many of whom are service academy graduates. The board reviewed applications, interviewed each of the applicants, and made recommendations to the senator. "It is a highlight of my job to nominate young Alaskans to our nation's… Continue Reading
01.31.23
While Continuing His Opposition to Pebble Mine, Sullivan Warns EPA’s “Pre-Emptive Veto” Could Imperil Other Alaska Resource Projects
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) released the following statement today after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its "Final Determination" under Section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act prohibiting and restricting the use of certain waters and watersheds for the discharge of dredged and fill material from development of the Pebble mineral deposit in Southwest Alaska. Sullivan opposes the Pebble Mine, but has also opposed the EPA's pursuit of a Section 404(c) "preempt… Continue Reading
01.26.23
Senators Sullivan & Baldwin Reintroduce Bipartisan Legislation to Help Veterans Access Earned Benefits
WASHINGTON-Today, U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.) introduced the Commitment to Veteran Support and Outreach Act to expand a community-based outreach program that helps veterans learn about and access their earned benefits. The legislation would expand and support County Veterans Service Officers (CVSO), the community-based employees who work directly with veterans to inform them of eligibility for Department of… Continue Reading
01.26.23
Murkowski, Sullivan: Tongass is a National Forest, Not a Political Football
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska) released the following statements after the U.S. Forest Service yesterday finalized its repeal of the Tongass National Forest's exemption from the 2001 Roadless Rule. The decision reinstates the 2001 rule, ignoring requests from the State of Alaska and data and analysis from the last administration that supported the 2020 exemption. "The Roadless Rule should never have applied to the Tongass, and the Biden administration's… Continue Reading
01.25.23
Alaska Marine Highway System Awarded $285 Million in Infrastructure Funding
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both R-Alaska, today announced the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) is awarding more than $285 million of investments to improve the reliability and service of Alaska's ferry system, which serves more than 30 communities across 3,500 miles of coastline. The funding, all awarded to the Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS), is designated to replacing an aging vessel, upgrading ferry dock infrastructure in rural communities, modernizing f… Continue Reading
