Dan Sullivan

I'll make sure he's aware of that when I go back and forth.

This amendment was an important, bipartisan step as we craft legislation to ensure that the Clean Water Act is focused on maintaining water quality.

I'm Senator Dan Sullivan, junior Senator from Alaska. I want to welcome everybody to this important hearing.

I appreciate the testimony.

So I think that it's important for the record to indicate that your views are similar to the views of the Congressional Research Service.

What is the status of our Arctic camouflage, and has it kept pace with advancements in thermal imagining and radar detection?

Does not having an Arctic Operation Plan (OPLAN) make it difficult--or impossible--to resource important arctic capabilities like the SUSV?

I just want to make sure we are not creating redundancies when, General Cheek, as you mentioned, we are also looking at tough choices about removing forces from critically strategic locations like Alaska.

I did not get a direct answer. Do you think there is a need for that?

I have heard talk about, hey, we do not have combat troops over there. I know that is obviously a mistaken assumption.

Do you think it makes sense to remove any combat brigades from Alaska, given what the Russians are doing?

If you look at a map of what the Russians are doing in the Arctic, it is pretty significant.

The stakes are awfully high as we're looking at something as of stepping into Title II and to the Internet.

I can't think of a program that ever exemplifies the Federal taxpayer getting more back for the resource they own by Constitution.

OK, so I am still not sure that is responsive to Senator Inhofe's question.

Our natural resources are something important to us as a Country, us as a people.

I am hopeful that in this Congress, we will be able to take these long efforts across the finish line.

This legislation represents years of hard work by the sporting community, and I am appreciative of the efforts that have gone into crafting what is a collection of bills that have demonstrated broad-based bipartisan support, including some…

This legislation simply codifies an existing exemption regarding the regulation of lead tackle and ammunition.

We are doing nothing essentially. We have a 13-page Arctic strategy that nobody seems to be paying attention to in my view.

I think would send a really, really bad signal to Vladimir Putin and others.

I appreciate in particular the emphasis in your testimony, particularly during the challenging times we are all seeing with regard to the budget, on the frugality or what I like to refer to in testimony yesterday with the Commandant and…

There are a lot of people in Alaska, and I think throughout the Country, who are doubting the legal basis for which your agency is acting.

The clean water rule, the 'waters of the U.S.' rule, is one of these issues that when you talk about no support, either in the law or the people, I think it is something that is happening right now.

You cannot. That is why we need a legal opinion that says you are not doing that when many people think you are doing that.