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Gerald L. Heikes

No position was found. The Division of Elections candidate list gives only his name, party registration, address and telephone number; he filed no statement for the official election pamphlet, the list names no website or email for him, and the Federal Election Commission shows no campaign committee for him this cycle. He did not answer the 2026 voter guides of four Alaska newsrooms or iVoterGuide.

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Mary Peltola

Her campaign says she will push permitting reform, back refining more Alaska oil in the state and projects like the Alaska LNG pipeline, modernize energy grids including the Railbelt, and restore the federal tax credits for solar, wind and hydropower that the 2025 reconciliation law cut.

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Dan S. Sullivan

His campaign says he is running on a record that includes unleashing Alaska's energy potential, and credits him with leading the fight against what it calls the Biden administration's war on energy. His pamphlet statement names energy production from the Petroleum Reserve, the Arctic refuge and Cook Inlet, and the Alaska LNG project.

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Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.

In his questionnaire answers he says he would support the Ambler road if it addresses the concerns of the communities that have used the land for generations. No broader energy position was found in his campaign site as read on September 23, 2026 (home page, two press releases and six posts, including his answers to two voter-guide questionnaires) and his election pamphlet statement.

Daniel J. Sullivan for US Senate Alaska Division of Elections
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Evidence timeline

Where statements meet the record.

  1. Occurred Dec 5, 2025

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    Dan S. Sullivan: Matches stated direction

    His campaign says he is running on a record that includes unleashing Alaska's energy potential. He sponsored S.J. Res. 80, which overturned the Bureau of Land Management's record of decision for the National Petroleum Reserve's leasing plan; it became Public Law 119-47 on December 5, 2025. He voted Yea on the 2025 reconciliation act (roll call 372), whose section 50104 requires at least four more area-wide oil and gas lease sales on the Arctic refuge's Coastal Plain within ten years, and whose section 50105 restores leasing in the Petroleum Reserve under the 2020 plan and requires at least five lease sales there within ten years. Limit: A law that requires lease sales or restores a leasing plan opens land to production; it does not produce oil, and nothing in these records measures production that followed. The records show the direction he claims, not the outcome “unleashing” implies.

    Alaskans for Dan Sullivan Congress.gov U.S. Government Publishing Office U.S. Government Publishing Office
  2. Occurred May 1, 2024

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    Mary Peltola: record does not settle this

    Her campaign says she has consistently stood up to anyone, including President Biden, to promote oil and gas development and secure approval of the Willow oil project. She was an original cosponsor of H.R. 6285, the Alaska's Right to Produce Act of 2023, introduced November 8, 2023, and voted Present when the House passed it on May 1, 2024 (roll call 174). On the floor that day she said she still supported the bill's intent but that it would nullify the Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area, and she introduced her own version the same day, H.R. 8214, which would void any pause on oil and gas leasing in the Coastal Plain. On the other House bills of her term about oil and gas leasing, production or export, she voted Yea on H.R. 22, barring Strategic Petroleum Reserve sales to buyers tied to China (January 12, 2023, roll call 31), on H.R. 7176, lifting restrictions on natural gas exports (February 15, 2024, roll call 52), and on H.R. 1121, barring a presidential moratorium on fracking (March 20, 2024, roll call 93); Nay on H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act (March 30, 2023, roll call 182), and on H.R. 6009, withdrawing a Bureau of Land Management rule on oil and gas leasing (March 20, 2024, roll call 95); and did not vote on H.R. 21, the Strategic Production Response Act (January 27, 2023). The Willow approval was an Interior Department decision, on which no member of Congress voted. On the Senate floor on March 8, 2023, Dan S. Sullivan thanked her for “a really strong job” on Willow, “particularly in the meeting last week with the President”. On March 14, 2023, Senator Lisa Murkowski named her in “a united delegation” that led the effort. Limit: The votes listed are every House passage vote of her term on a bill whose text is about oil and gas leasing, production or export, found by searching the Clerk's roll-call titles for 2022 to 2024; votes on other land and energy rules are left out, such as the WEST Act on a Bureau of Land Management conservation rule, on which she voted No (roll call 165 of 2024). They are votes on particular bills rather than on the claim, which is about advocacy.

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