WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Roger Wicker (R-MS), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chris Murphy (D-CT), Joni...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement after she and a bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers met virtually with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy:“I appreciated the opportunity to speak with President Zelenskyy today about Ukraine’s...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Chris Coons (D-DE) demanded answers from SpaceX about recent unexpected, life-threatening restrictions to Starlink and Starshield technologies reported by Ukrainian military...
WASHINGTON – This week, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senate Democratic Whip and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, concluded their October 6-13 congressional delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro, Croatia and Kosovo. This was...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, published an op-ed in the Globe and Mail advocating for the strengthening of the U.S.-Canada relationship amid the upcoming centennial of the two countries’ friendship next year.In the piece, the Ranking Member underscores the national...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Thom Tillis (R-NC), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Susan Collins (R-ME), Jack Reed (D-RI), John Cornyn (R-TX), Chris Coons (D-DE), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) sent a letter to the Department of Defense’s Inspector General,...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Susan Collins (R-ME), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Alan Armstrong (R-OK), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Jack Reed (D-RI), Chris Coons (D-DE), Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and John...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Susan Collins (R-ME), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Thom Tillis (R-NC) and John Curtis (R-UT) issued a statement regarding the legality of Russian diesel fuel imports to the United States.“Congress...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Joni Ernst (R-IA) along with Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC), Co-Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, issued the below statement regarding the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation’s (DFC)...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Democratic Leader, and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the below statement condemning President Trump’s decision to lift sanctions...
TIRANA, ALBANIA – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, spoke at an Atlantic Council event entitled “Choosing Albania: Young leaders in conversation with US Senators.” The Ranking Member discussed her long-standing efforts to strengthen democratic resilience in the Western Balkans and...
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA – U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senate Democratic Whip and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, visited Sarajevo and Srebrenica to reaffirm U.S. support for Bosnia and Herzegovina’s (BiH) sovereignty, democratic...
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was interviewed by CNN’s Christiane Amanpour this week for a conversation that touched on the recent Bosnia and Herzegovina elections, Russia’s war against Ukraine and Putin being invited to the upcoming G20...
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Roger Wicker (R-MS), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent urging the Trump Administration to use the tools in the Lindsey...
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA – This week, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is leading a congressional delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro, Croatia and Kosovo. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), Senate Democratic Whip and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee,...
WASHINGTON – Last week, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging him to review allegations that U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, may have improperly advocated on behalf of a foreign company and provided access for a registered...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement after the Trump Administration refused to invite international election observers to monitor the 2026 U.S. midterm elections. This marks the first time in more than two decades that the United States...
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemning the Trump Administration’s decision to proceed with the reprogramming of more...
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jack Reed (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee, Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ranking Member of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, and Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Ranking Member of the Energy and Natural...
WASHINGTON – On Wednesday night, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, successfully called for ten career nominees for key ambassadorial posts to be discharged and confirmed on the Senate floor by unanimous consent.In the rare procedural move, Ranking Member Shaheen stressed the urgent need to...