{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.sullivan.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sullivan-condemns-reckless-and-unprofessional-russian-fighter-tactics-near-alaska-airspace", "Sullivan Condemns \u201cReckless and Unprofessional\u201d Russian Fighter Tactics Near Alaska Airspace", "2024-09-30", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "Senate", "AK", "Dan Sullivan", "S001198", "www.sullivan.senate.gov", "sullivan", "https://www.sullivan.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases?PageNum_rs=10", "scraper", "WASHINGTON\u2014U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today released the following statement after the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) released video of a Russian Su-35 aircraft conducting a dangerous maneuver next to an Alaska-based U.S. Air Force fighter during an intercept on September 23 in Alaska\u2019s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ).\n\n\u201cThe reckless and unprofessional maneuvers of Russian fighter pilots\u2014within just a few feet of our Alaska-based fighters\u2014in Alaska\u2019s ADIZ on September 23 put the lives of our brave Airmen at risk and underscore the escalating aggression we\u2019re witnessing from dictators like Vladimir Putin,\u201d said Sen. Sullivan. \u201cThese tactics stand in stark contrast to the skill and discipline of our Alaska-based service members who are on the front lines at all hours in defense of our entire country. I want to commend our Airmen for consistently and professionally executing these complex intercept missions.\n\n\u201cWe need to answer force with force and continue building up America\u2019s military presence in Alaska and the Arctic with more infrastructure, like the strategic Arctic port at Nome and reopening the Adak Naval Air Facility, and more military assets.\u201d\n\nOn September 17, 2024, Sen. Sullivan praised the deployment of 11th Airborne Division soldiers to the Aleutian Islands in response to increased Russian and Chinese military activity near Alaska. Between September 11 and September 15, Alaska-based forces detected and tracked four separate incursions of Russian military aircraft operating in the Alaska ADIZ and one incursion of Russian naval vessels in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:46:43Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.sullivan.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sullivan-condemns-reckless-and-unprofessional-russian-fighter-tactics-near-alaska-airspace"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.8448338378220797, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}