WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 -- Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski (both R-Alaska), and Representative Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) called on the Postal Regulatory Commission to reject consideration of the United States Postal Service's (USPS) proposal to establish higher postal rates for mail delivered to the non-contiguous United States. In a letter sent today that was signed by the Alaska and Hawaiian Congressional delegations as  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski (both R-Alaska), and Representative Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) called on the Postal Regulatory Commission to reject consideration of the United States Postal Service's (USPS) proposal to establish higher postal rates for mail delivered to the non-contiguous United States. In a letter sent today that was signed by the Alaska and Hawaiian Congressional delegations as w  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- Rep. Mary Sattler Peltola, D-Alaska, issued the following news release on Dec. 19, 2023: U.S. Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski (both R-Alaska), and Representative Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) called on the Postal Regulatory Commission to reject consideration of the United States Postal Service's (USPS) proposal to establish higher postal rates for mail delivered to the non-contiguous United States. In a letter sent today that was signed by the Alaska and Hawaiian Congr  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen (both D-Md.) welcomed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) release in November of 130,716 H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas for fiscal year 2024 as they announced that they have joined U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Mark Warner, and Tim Kaine (both D-Va.) in introducing bipartisan legislation to improve the H-2B pr  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (TNSrep) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R44692) on Nov. 8, 2023, entitled "Five-Year Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing Program: Status and Issues in Brief" by natural resources policy specialist Laura B. Comay. Here are excerpts: * * * Contents Leasing Program Status ... 1 Selected Issues for Congress ... 4 Number of Sales in the 2024-2029 Program ... 4 Timing Considerations for the Five-Year Program ... 5 Regional Leasing Decisio  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON--In an opinion published on Saturday in the Wall Street Journal, U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) describes his confrontation with anti-Israel protesters during a visit to his alma mater, Harvard University. Sen. Sullivan encountered the hostile protesters while inside Harvard's Widener reading room. "Imagine if you were an 18-year-old Jewish or Israeli student, or even a pro-Israel Catholic l  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 -- Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON--U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today spoke on the Senate floor about the continued import of Russian seafood into the U.S., despite there being a prohibition in place. Sen. Sullivan again urged his colleagues to pass his U.S-Russian Federation Seafood Reciprocity Act of 2023, bipartisan and bicameral legislation that would close a loophole allowing Russian harvested seafood that has been rep  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: Provisions from senators' bipartisan bill included in SUPPORT Act Reauthorization A negotiated version of U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and John Hickenlooper's bipartisan Peer-to-Peer Mental Health Support Act passed out of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee as a provision within the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for P  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- Rep. Mary Sattler Peltola, D-Alaska, issued the following news release: Representatives Peltola (D-AK), Boyle (D-PA), Cuellar (D-TX), and Gonzalez (D-TX) sent a letter to Janet Coit, Assistant Administrator for Fisheries at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to oppose a rule published on July 29, 2022, that would restrict certain vessel speeds in response to a decline in the population of North American Right Whales. This rule would have a signific  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee, applauded the Senate's unanimous passage of his legislation amending the 2020 Save Our Seas (SOS) 2.0 Act and the 2006 Marine Debris Act. The amendments will provide the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) greater flexibility to deliver federal resources and enter into cooperative agre  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 -- 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 below statements on Senate passage of H.R. 1722, the Grand Ronde Reservation Act, and H.R. 2839, a bill to amend the Siletz Reservation Act to address the hunting, fishing, trapping,   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 -- Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Tammy Duckworth (D-Illinois), Jerry Moran (R-Kansas), and Jacky Rosen (D-Nevada) introduced READINESS Act - legislation that supports military and foreign service spouses and their families by creating more job flexibility when a servicemember is deployed or transferred. The bill, which was developed by current and former federally employed military   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 -- Rep. Mary Sattler Peltola, D-Alaska, issued the following news release on Dec. 22, 2023: Today, U.S. Representative Mary Peltola (D-AK) celebrated a pro-fish decision she brought to national attention to support fishermen in Alaska. An Executive Order set to be signed by the President today empowers the United States to combat predatory foreign trawlers, particularly in the Bering Sea and North Pacific regions. The order builds upon existing U.S. sanctions against Russia   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 -- Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, issued the following news release: ANCHORAGE, ALASKA--U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) today lauded a new Executive Order and resulting U.S. Department of the Treasury determination that will finally revise current guidance that has allowed all Russian-origin seafood to bypass an earlier Executive Order banning its import into the United States. The new determination states that the current prohibition on Russian imports applies to salmon,  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Ben Cardin (both D-Md.) welcomed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) release in November of 130,716 H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas for fiscal year 2024 as they announced that they have joined U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Mark Warner, and Tim Kaine (both D-Va.) in introducing bipartisan legislation to improve the H-2B program to hel  more