Press Releases
ICYMI: Sullivan Discusses Willow Project, and the CCP’s Greatest Weakness in Radio Interview
WASHINGTON-In an interview on The Hugh Hewitt Show Tuesday morning, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) called out the Biden administration for delaying the Willow Project in Alaska, while authorizing oil development in Venezuela that is more than 18 times more polluting and will pad the pockets of an authoritarian, human-rights-violating, despotic regime. Senator Sullivan also explained why he led a letter co-signed by a bipartisan group of 41 senators warning the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)… Continue Reading
12.06.22
Sullivan, Barrasso, Luján Lead Bipartisan Letter to Expand High-Speed Internet Access in Rural Communities
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) led their Senate colleagues in a bipartisan letter to the secretaries of the Departments of Interior, Agriculture, and Commerce about the need to expand high-speed internet access in rural communities. Internet service providers are required to obtain permits from the federal government when installing telecommunications infrastructure on federal lands or for projects using federal fundin… Continue Reading
12.01.22
Sullivan, Merkley Lead Bipartisan Group of Senators in Warning CCP Against Violent Crackdown on Protesters
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), chair of the Congressional Executive Commission on China, today led a bipartisan letter with nearly half of their Senate colleagues to the Chinese ambassador to the United States warning the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime of the consequences of a violent crackdown on peaceful protesters. Demonstrations have erupted across China in response to the CCP's… Continue Reading
12.01.22
House Passes Bill to Make Sullivan-Shaheen POWER Act Permanent, Supporting Survivors of Violence
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) thanked their House colleagues, led by Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (D-Alaska), for passing their bill today to permanently authorize the Pro Bono Work to Empower and Represent (POWER) Act. Since it was signed into law for a four-year term in 2018, thePOWER Act has been helping combat domestic violence and sexual assault by requiring every federal district court across the country to host an annual summit encoura… Continue Reading
12.01.22
Sullivan, Cotton Introduce Bill to Support 9/11, Beirut Bombing Victims
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), both members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), have introduced the Fairness for American Victims of State-Sponsored Terrorism Act, which would expand and improve a federal program that helps terrorist attack victims and their families get justice.Specifically, the bill repurposes no-longer-needed COVID-19 funding to help American victims of terrorism recover court-awarded payments for acts of terrorism committ… Continue Reading
11.30.22
TODAY 4PM: Sullivan, GOP Senators to Seek Expedited Passage of Bill Protecting Camp Lejeune Vets from Unscrupulous Trial Lawyers
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) today at 4:00pm will attempt to pass the Protect Camp Lejeune Victims Ensnared by Trial-lawyers' Scams (VETS) Act by unanimous consent, meaning the bill will pass unless any senator objects. The bill would cap the fees trial lawyer… Continue Reading
11.29.22
Statement from Sen. Dan Sullivan on Respect for Marriage Act Vote
WASHINGTON D.C.-Today, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) released the following statement after voting for final passage of the Respect for Marriage Act (RMA): "While I've long held that marriage should be an issue left up to the states, the Supreme Court nationalized the issue in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015. Although I disagreed with Obergefell, I said then I would respect the Court's decision and also continue to fight for, respect, and defend the religious liberty of all Americans. … Continue Reading
11.17.22
Murkowski, Sullivan Applaud An Additional $135.9 Million in Broadband Investment for Alaska
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska) applauded the announcement of an additional $135.9 million in federal broadband grants for communities across Alaska. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program (TBCP) announced the grants Thursday for broadband programs in Western, Southcentral, and Southeastern Alaska. Newly announced grant recipients include the NANA Regional Corporation, Inc., Central Coun… Continue Reading
11.17.22
Sullivan Demands Congress Protect Sick Marines from Predatory Trial Lawyers
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee (SVAC), criticized some of his committee colleagues in an SVAC hearing yesterday for enabling predatory trial lawyers to charge sick Marines exorbitant fees in court cases related to water contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. Impacted Marines are able to seek compensation for service-related toxic exposure as a result of the Camp Lejeune Justice Act, which became law i… Continue Reading
11.14.22
Murkowski, Sullivan Continue to Press for Fair Process, Timely Re-Approval of Ambler Access Project
Anchorage, AK - U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska) sent a new letter to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland reiterating their strong support for the Ambler Access Project (Ambler Road). The Senators' letter, in response to the Department of the Interior's (DOI) recent request for public input as it scopes a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the project, urges DOI to limit its analysis to court-identified issues and to quickly complete the SEIS so develo… Continue Reading
10.28.22
Interior Alaska Receives $30 Million to Deploy High-Speed Internet
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA-U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska) today announced that the Tanana Chiefs Conference (TCC) is receiving a $30.3 million federal broadband grant, made possible by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The grant comes through USDA's ReConnect Program, which aims to build out broadband infrastructure to connect communities across the United States with high speed internet access. TCC's grant will help to fund a fiber network in the Yukon-Koyukuk Ce… Continue Reading
10.26.22
$112 Million Announced for Alaska Ports and Ferry Terminals
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA-U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska) today announced that four Alaska coastal communities will receive a total of $112 million in investments this year for critical port-related infrastructure and ferry terminal projects, marking the first wave of these type of investments attributable to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). The awards, made possible by the IIJA's investments in Alaska's maritime infrastructure and supply chain, will benef… Continue Reading
10.24.22
Sen. Dan Sullivan, Ambassador Emanuel Lead AK LNG Summit in Tokyo
TOKYO-Today, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) released the following statement at the conclusion of the Alaska LNG Summit of U.S. and Japanese energy and policy leaders convened in Tokyo by U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel. The summit was a significant gathering of stakeholders seeking to advance the Alaska LNG Project-a proposed 800-mile pipeline from Alaska's North Slope to tidewater in Cook Inlet that would supply abundant natural gas to Alaskans and to Indo-Pacific allies of the Uni… Continue Reading
10.22.22
Sullivan Emphasizes the Power of Unity at Alaska Federation of Natives Convention
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), in a speech yesterday at the Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) annual convention, celebrated AFN's history of being a uniting force in Alaska, and spoke about how such unity among Alaska Native communities, as well as with the state and federal government, has resulted in great successes for all Alaskans. The successes Sullivan highlighted included battling COVID-19; securing funding for broadband, water and sewer in the Infrastructure In… Continue Reading
10.13.22
Murkowski, Sullivan Applaud An Additional $124.4 Million in Broadband Investment for Western and Southwestern Alaska
WASHNGTON-U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska) applauded the announcement of an additional $124.4 million in federal broadband grants for Western and Southwestern Alaska. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program (TBCP) announced Tuesday that the Bethel Native Corporation received a $42 million grant to build a fiber network for Bethel, Platinum, Eek, Napaskiak, and Oscarville, $52.6 million to Calist… Continue Reading
10.12.22
Sullivan Introduces ROAR Act to Refill Strategic Reserve with American-Produced Petroleum
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) yesterday introduced the Replenishing Our American Reserves (ROAR) Act, legislation that would require that the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) only include petroleum products produced in the United States, and only sell to domestic buyers. "Last November, President Biden began draining our country's Strategic Petroleum Reserve in a shortsighted attempt to control the skyrocketing gas prices his administration's energy policies have wro… Continue Reading
10.07.22
Sullivan Reacts to New National Strategy for the Arctic
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today issued the following statement in response to the White House's release of a new "National Strategy for the Arctic Region." "When I first came to the Senate, the Obama administration had an Arctic strategy document that was thirteen pages long, filled with mostly pictures, mentioned climate change five times, and only mentioned Russia in a footnote. I fought for legislation requiring … Continue Reading
10.04.22
Murkowski, Sullivan, and Colleagues Demand Administration End Its War on U.S. Oil & Gas
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-AK) joined nineteen of their Republican Senate colleagues, in a letter led by U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), to demand the Biden administration end its assault on domestic oil and gas production and continue to sell oil and gas leases on federal land and water. The push comes in response to the U.S. Department of the Interior's draft proposal for the Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program, in which the depar… Continue Reading
09.30.22
Sullivan, Barrasso Introduce Bill to End China’s Unfair Advantage
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) have introduced legislation, the Ending China's Unfair Advantage Act, to end American taxpayer handouts to China. The Ending China's Unfair Advantage Act prohibits U.S. funding going to the Montreal Protocol, a United Nations (UN) treaty, until China is no longer treated as a developing country. C… Continue Reading
09.30.22
Murkowski, Sullivan Introduce Bill to Recognize the Legacy of the Late Congressman Don Young
WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska) yesterday introduced the Don Young Recognition Act, a bill to honor the legacy of the late Don Young, congressman for all Alaska. The legislation designates one of the most active volcanoes in the Aleutian Islands, currently known as Mount Cerberus, as Mount Young. In addition, the bill recognizes Congressman Young's lifelong contributions to Alaska by designating the federal office building in Fairbanks as the Don Young Fe… Continue Reading
