None of this makes sense, particularly when most building materials that we get in Alaska are imported.

I just want to follow on from what Senator Murkowski just said. Here is our resolution, S. 5066, introduced by Senator Murkowski and myself, and we just want to thank our colleagues for agreeing to this tribute to Congressman Don Young. We…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Van Hollen). Without objection, it is so ordered. Amendment No. 6503

nobody wants a strike right now in our country. We have had challenges with supply chains. We have had challenges with finding enough workers with regard to our businesses. Nobody wants a strike. My amendment would certainly focus on not…

I call up my amendment, No. 6503, and I ask that it be reported by number. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report. The bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from Alaska [Mr. Sullivan], for himself and for Mr. Cotton, proposes an…

We just need the more efficient, timely, certain permitting. We are not cutting corners.

Common sense permitting reform is something that every American, regardless of political party, regardless of where you live, agrees with.

The only people that helps is the Chinese Communist Party and the radical enviros.

It is so important, and it is remarkable to me that we pass a bill, and then the White House would come out with rules to undermine the very ability to build infrastructure that they have touted.

I was proud to say that my CRA as we call them had a vote on the Senate floor, and it rescinded the Biden permitting CEQ rule.

I voted for the bill. It wasn't perfect, but in part because of the permitting provisions. We need more of them, but it was a good start.

It shouldn't take 8 years to permit a bridge. It took 20 years to permit a gold mine.

we are a resource rich but infrastructure poor State.

So, Madam President, one of the things that I have always done in my job here in the U.S. Senate is, whenever there is a bill dealing with disaster relief, regardless of what part of the country it is, I always vote for it. The reason I do…

I want to talk about one of the strongest storms in many, many years to hit my State. It was called Typhoon Merbok, and it hit western Alaska late last week and into the weekend. It brought gale-force winds, massive flooding, and loss of…

there has been much made in the Biden administration about the value of diversity, and I agree that having diversity in any organization is positive. You get different viewpoints. But diversity encompasses much more than race or gender or…

about 4 years ago, I was part of a meeting with several Senators--there were about 11 of us--here in the U.S. Capitol with the Chinese Ambassador. And in the meeting, I had raised a number of issues about the lack of reciprocity that China…

So that was the liberal case, defund the Pentagon. The junior Senator from Vermont wrote that. The majority leader put out a tweet saying he was a proud supporter of the defund the Pentagon amendment. That was right here on the Senate…

I ask for the yeas and nays on the amendment. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The yeas and nays are ordered. Under the previous order, all postcloture time has expired…

I call up my amendment No. 5518 and ask that it be reported by number. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Alaska [Mr. Sullivan], for himself…

my colleague from Tennessee was just talking about priorities of this administration and this Senate, and I want to continue on that area of focus, relating to what many of us believe is probably the most important priority we have in the…

the letter says: At the founding of our nation, then-General George Washington penned, ``When the civil and military powers cooperate, and afford mutual aid to each other there can be little doubt of things going well.'' As General Milley…

We need your help on it.

Over 82 percent of the communities I represent don't have roads connecting them at all.

We are what I like to say a resource rich but infrastructure poor State.