Dan Sullivan

I am always trying to get a little help for my State, and you will see that in a minute.

This is a simple amendment. It just makes the sub-account here subject to appropriations.

This is 100 percent racial equity.

No, for now. But I will work with you, Ben.

I don't even think my friend, Ed Markey, can argue with this.

I want to talk about this chart for quite some time, because it never gets the attention that it deserves.

Had every other country in the world had a record like this, where do you think we would be in global emissions?

The answer is about 9 percent, globally, 9 percent, which is remarkable.

If this is the record right now, do you think it makes sense, Ms. Sgamma, to shut down the production of natural gas in America?

That issue should trump everything.

I don't want to be rude here, I only have so much time. Shouldn't we in the formula prioritize need?

The people in Alaska refer to the system of honey buckets, which sounds sweet. It is not sweet at all.

I am concerned that these three potential formulas by the EPA that have been developed are too heavily reliant on population and can make matters worse, at least for States like mine that have these kinds of needs and size and challenges.

That is just completely unacceptable. As American citizens, we should all care about that.

We have thousands of U.S. citizens, patriotic Americans, who live in third-world conditions. That is just not right.

My constituents, as you can imagine, were happy about the litigation finally looking like we have prevailed. But now they are worried that someone is going to take it out and use it against us.

So nobody is going to go, well, you know, the Port of Alaska just got this big award, so we are not going to give them a grant, because they just got something. You are not going to do that?

I would like your assurance that this award is not treated by the DOT as an award in lieu of any of the future grants.

It moves 90 percent of all goods that come into Alaska, 90 percent. So very important that way.

I want to get your commitment to come on up to Alaska and actually see and walk the ground with me, this port and other aspects of our infrastructure sometime soon.

Well, to my colleague, I look forward to working with you on that and those amendments and look forward to moving her nomination forward in that light. I yield the floor. ____________________

I want to congratulate the North Dakota Senators, my colleagues, on the great job with their football team. ``Go Bison!'' Well done, North Dakota.

This is just very difficult for my constituents to have to deal with. And I think it is unfair.

There is no other State in the country that is getting this kind of focus on shutting down Alaska, ignoring the Native people.

If Joe Biden had a Republican administration that came in on year one and issued 21 executive actions against Delaware, he would be as mad as I am.