ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 27 -- Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, issued the following news release on June 26, 2023: U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska) today joined the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) in announcing over $1 billion in new funding from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) for Alaska to build out the state's broadband infrastructure to connect communities to high speed internet. The funding comes from  more

SAN RAFAEL, California, June 28 -- Rep. Jared Huffman, D-California, issued the following news release on June 27, 2023, and a letter: This week, Representative Jared Huffman (CA-02), U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Vice Chair of the Committee on Indian Affairs, and Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, sent a letter to the Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) requesting they exa  more

WASHINGTON, June 26 -- Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, issued the following news release on June 24, 2023: U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) on Thursday took aim at a threat to Alaska fishermen and the Alaska seafood industry, attempting to address the continued import of Russian seafood into the U.S., despite there being a prohibition in place. Sen. Sullivan attempted to expedite passage of his recently-introduced U.S-Russian Federation Seafood Reciprocity Act of 2023, bipartisan and bicamera  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, issued the following news release and letter on June 26, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Vice Chair of the Committee on Indian Affairs, Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, and Representative Jared Huffman (CA-02) sent a letter to the Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) requesting they examine tribal criminal   more

WASHINGTON, June 29 -- Rep. Mary Sattler Peltola, D-Alaska, issued the following news release on June 28, 2023: On June 14, the House Transportation & Infrastructure (T&I) Committee passed H.R. 3935, the Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act, a bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and aviation safety and infrastructure programs for the next five years. The committee debated the bill and amendments for two days, and ultimately passed it with a un  more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, June 26 -- Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan (both R-Alaska) today joined the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) in announcing over $1 billion in new funding from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) for Alaska to build out the state's broadband infrastructure to connect communities to high speed internet. The funding comes from the IIJA's Broadba  more

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, July 1 -- Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, issued the following news release on June 30, 2023: U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) last week introduced comprehensive seafood-related legislation intended to bolster U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) support for domestic fishermen and seafood producers. In addition to numerous other provisions that would support the sustainable harvest and consumption of American seafood, Sen. Sullivan's National Seafood Supply Act of 2023 dire  more

WASHINGTON, June 24 -- Sen. Katie Britt, R-Alabama, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.), a member of the Energy and Water Subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, recently joined Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and a bipartisan group of six of their colleagues in introducing legislation to prohibit the Biden Administration from banning gas stoves. The "Save Our Gas Stoves Act" explicitly bars the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) from implementing   more