Anchorage, AK—U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan and U.S. Representative Nick Begich (all R-Alaska) Thursday commended Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum for announcing three initial decisions that will restore access to federal lands, facilitate long-overdue land conveyances, and boost responsible resource production in Alaska. The decisions further President Trump’s recent Executive Order on Unleashing […]
JUNEAU – The Senate State Affairs Committee heard Senate Bill 107, “The Alaska Sunset Commission Act,” by Senator Shelley Hughes (R – Palmer). The cost-saving measure will help ensure efficiency, transparency and constitutional alignment in the operation of our state government. The bill establishes the Alaska Sunset Commission as an apolitical, independent, and objective panel […]
Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) today reintroduced bipartisan legislation to reauthorize a domestic program focused on detecting and warning about volcanic threats. Their bill – cosponsored by Senators Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) – will enable the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to continue to improve its volcano […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) and 11 other senators have introduced the Foreign Investment Guardrails to Help Thwart (FIGHT) China Act, which would safeguard the United States’ national security against the growing threat posed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) by prohibiting […]
