Dan Sullivan

It is also 90 percent of all supplies and food that come to Alaska come through this port.

Can I get a commitment from all of you.

This is a bill I think that makes sense whether you are from Alabama, North Carolina, Montana, Alaska, because we all have significant vet populations, significant DOD centers.

We do not even have a full-service VA hospital in the whole State and we are, you know, six times bigger than Montana; right?

I want to thank the witnesses, sincerely thank the witnesses, Dr. Brill and your team.

This is the bill that authorizes the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the VA to enter into agreements.

I hope that we can move this in a bipartisan way because for all the reasons Dr. Brill mentioned and it saves money.

We want to make sure we are helping.

I think we have made good progress.

Look again, Russia has 50, and 54 is a number I know and many of which are nuclear, some of which are heavily weaponized, so we are way behind.

I think it is a concern of yours, which is a gap in coverage, given that the fire aboard the HEALY.

But they don't have the right to shoot off Alaskan fishing vessel.

I think you are seeing here Coast Guard assets, Coast Guard infrastructure, Coast Guard icebreakers, whether in the Arctic or on the Great Lakes, is really bipartisan.

I think there is a lot of bipartisan support for this kind of action in the Senate.

I chair the Congressional Veterans Job Caucus with Senator Manchin.

I think it is something most Senators are supportive of, and I think we are going to have an opportunity here with the NDAA likely passing.

I actually think it is a great opportunity for our young men and women who are getting out.

You know, we all kind of brag about our States a little bit. My colleagues have never heard this. My State has more veterans per capita than any State in the country.

It saves money. It is better for our vets. It is better for our active duty forces.

Do they provide platforms for authoritarian or terrorist-based leaders, like the Ayatollahs in Iran?

You can declare moral bankruptcy and we can figure out how to fix these things together because we solve problems together. We don't solve them alone.

I think we're going to look back 20 years from now and all of us are going to be like what in the hell were we thinking when we recognize the damage that's done to a generation of kids.

Isn't that incompatible with your business model because your business model is more time online, more eyeballs online?

Any transition to a circular economy that leaves rural America out I think is going to fail.

In my State, it is estimated that nearly 70 percent of households do not have access to curbside recycling.