WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: Earlier today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation favorably reported U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski's (R-AK) National Landslide Preparedness Reauthorization Act on a strong bipartisan basis. Murkowski's bill, cosponsored by U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), would reauthorize current law for ten years, through Fiscal Year (FY) 2034, and provide the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)   more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: Combat Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) joined U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska)--a fellow member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC)--in introducing the Sanctions Targeting Aggressors of Neighboring Democracies (STAND) with Taiwan Act of 2024, which would impose devastating, comprehensive economic, energy, financial and other sanctions on the People's Republic of China (PRC)   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Sen. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: During a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) markup, U.S. Senators Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) and Susan Collins (R-Alaska) spearheaded the committee passage of bipartisan legislation to advance the reauthorization of the Autism Collaboration, Accountability, Research, Education, and Support Act (Autism CARES). This bill renews federal support for research, services, and training   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) today voted in favor of S. 4753, the Energy Permitting Reform Act, during a markup held by the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. The panel reported the legislation, which reflects a bipartisan agreement between Chairman Joe Manchin (D-WV) and John Barrasso (R-WY), by a vote of 15-4. "Anyone who has been within a thousand miles of the federal permitting proc  more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: Last week, U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) moved forward substantial investments towards Alaska clean water and wastewater infrastructure projects through the Senate Appropriations Committee. Murkowski, who serves as Ranking Member of the Interior-Environment Subcommittee, was able to direct these investments in the Interior-Environment Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) Appropriations Act. The bill passed overwhel  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Rep. Mary Sattler Peltola, D-Alaska, issued the following news release: * * * Peltola bill would fund grants for VSOs to purchase vehicles * * * This month, Representatives Mary Sattler Peltola (AK-AL), James C. Moylan (R-GU-AL), and Steven Horsford (D-NV-04) introduced the Veteran Service Organization Transportation Act, a bill to empower Veterans Service Organizations (VSOs) in highly rural areas to apply for grants to purchase transportation for vets in their commun  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Rep. Mary Sattler Peltola, D-Alaska, issued the following news release on July 31, 2024: This week, Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (AK-AL) introduced the Domestic Seafood Production Act (DSPA), legislation to help address food security in communities historically reliant on coastal and marine resources by helping them build seafood processing capacity for local use. Peltola's bill would prevent rapid offshore finfish aquaculture permitting and its harmful effects on   more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, voted to advance three bills for Fiscal Year 2025 (FY 2025) last week that contain significant investments for Alaska priorities. The measures are for Transportation, Housing and Urban Development; Commerce, Science, Justice; and State and Foreign Operations. All three were approved in committee on a strong bipartisan basis and   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, vice chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), vice chairman of the Committee, released the following statements on the Department of the Interior's release of its second and final investigative report initiated by its Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative. In additio  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), vice chairman of the Committee, released the following statements on the Department of the Interior's release of its second and final investigative report initiated by its Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative. In addition to  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai'i), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), vice chairman of the Committee, led Committee passage of the following bills at a business meeting: * S.2783, Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendments Act; * S.3406, Technical Corrections to the Northwestern New Mexico Rural Water P  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, vice chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, helped lead a group of senators to speak on her legislation, S.1723, Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act. The legislation, which she co-authored with U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass), would establish a formal commission to in  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs (SVAC), welcomed the passage of his Senate resolution acknowledging the courage and sacrifice of veterans of the Vietnam War. The resolution also offered a long-overdue apology for the mistreatment many Vietnam veterans endured upon their return to the United States. "58,000 members of the Armed Forces lost their lives in t  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) sent a letter yesterday to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman urging them to provide greater transparency and a full accounting of the major cyanide spill at a Canadian gold mine last month in the Yukon Territory. "I sent a letter to Prime Minister Trudeau raising an issue I've been working on for years--making sure Canad  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) hosted representatives from the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (AEWC), the North Slope Borough, the Biden administration, and more than 20 embassies at the U.S. Capitol Tuesday evening for a reception on the significance of subsistence whaling to the cultures and livelihoods of thousands of Alaska Native people. The reception was held ahead of the 69th International Whaling Co  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today pressed the Biden-Harris administration for delaying the delivery of vital weapons and equipment to Israel for months, in spite of the onslaught of attacks Israel has sustained from Iranian-backed terrorist proxies, like Hezbollah, which killed 12 Israeli children and injured dozens more in an attack last Saturday.   more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), joined his Senate colleagues in introducing the PLO and PA Terror Payments Accountability Act, legislation to impose sanctions on foreign persons and entities that provide payments to Palestinian terrorists and the families of terrorists as part of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and Palestinian Authority's (P  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs (SVAC), and several of his SVAC colleagues signed onto a letter, led by Senator Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), to SVAC Chairman Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) demanding an immediate hearing concerning the startling $15 billion shortfall that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently announced. The budget shortfall, the larg  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today sent a letter with his Senate colleagues to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach in response to the vulgar depiction of the Last Supper that took place during the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024. Senators James Lankford (R-Okl.), Marco Rubio (R-Fl.), Roger Marshall, M.D. (R-Kan.), Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Commerce Committee, today voted to pass the Kids Online Safety and Protection Act, legislation to protect the health, wellbeing, and privacy of children online. This bill combines provisions from the Kids Online Safety Act, of which Sen. Sullivan was an original cosponsor, and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act to combat harmful online content   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Legislation aims to boost innovation and training, expanding Fab Labs across the country U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and U.S. Representative Bill Foster (D-Ill.) have reintroduced the National Fab Lab Network Act, bipartisan legislation to expand Fab Labs across the country. Fab Lab facilities provide access to and training with digitally-controlled tools, such a  more