SVALBARD, NORWAY – U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Co-Chair of the Senate Arctic Caucus, led a bipartisan, all-women congressional delegation to Svalbard, Norway for engagements focused on Arctic governance, scientific research and regional security. The...
PITUFFIK SPACE BASE, GREENLAND – U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Co-Chair of the Senate Arctic Caucus, led a bipartisan, all-women congressional delegation to Pituffik Space Base in Greenland to examine U.S. military operations and strategic capabilities in...
IQALUIT, CANADA – U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Co-Chair of the Senate Arctic Caucus, led a bipartisan, all-women congressional delegation to Iqaluit, Canada for meetings with Canadian officials, Inuit leaders and Arctic stakeholders. The delegation included...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Thom Tillis (R-NC), Co-Chair of the Senate Taiwan Caucus, introduced a bipartisan resolution reaffirming the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979 as well as longstanding bipartisan support for the U.S.-Taiwan partnership. Senators Shaheen...
WASHINGTON – On Friday, May 22, 2026, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Co-Chair of the Senate Arctic Caucus, will lead a bipartisan, all-woman congressional delegation to Canada, Greenland, Norway and Iceland to examine U.S. and allied Arctic security,...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced the bipartisan Exchange Stabilization Fund Transparency Act which would provide much-needed transparency over the use of the Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) to provide financial support to foreign...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent demanding an explanation for the Trump...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered opening remarks during a committee hearing on the nominations of Brock Dahl to be Legal Advisor of the Department of State, David Brat to be Ambassador to the Commonwealth of Australia, Michael Kavoukjian to be Ambassador to...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement on the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. Hundreds have been infected, including an American doctor, and over 100 have died. The World Health Organization has declared the...
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced the bipartisan Reassessing the United States-Tanzania Bilateral Relationship Act. This legislation requires a comprehensive review of the U.S.-Tanzania relationship following national elections on...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Pete Ricketts (R-NE) introduced the bipartisan U.S. Technology Procurement and Access to Trusted Hardware Act (or U.S. Tech PATH Act), which aims to streamline the procurement of American cyber and digital technology by partner...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Elizabeth Warren, Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the below statement condemning the Trump Administration for once again extending the Department of the Treasury’s ‘temporary’...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Elizabeth Warren, Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the below statement urging the Trump Administration not to extend the Department of Treasury’s General License 134B, which...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chris Coons (D-DE), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) released the following statement after the...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Democratic Leader, Dick Durbin (D-IL), Jack Reed (D-RI), Chris Coons (D-DE), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Andy Kim (D-NJ) released the following statement as President Trump arrives in...
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led the charge from Congress to push President Trump to not sell out American national security during his summit with Chinese President Xi in Beijing later this week.Ranking Member Shaheen and Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) authored a...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and John Curtis (R-UT) published an op-ed in The Economist warning that rising aggression from the People’s Republic of China toward Taiwan and across the Indo-Pacific requires clear, consistent and bipartisan American leadership. The...
WASHINGTON – Last week, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Thom Tillis (R-NC), Chris Coons (D-DE), John Curtis (R-UT), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Andy Kim (D-NJ) and Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) sent a letter urging President Trump to formally notify $14 billion in U.S. arms...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and John Curtis (R-UT) released a statement welcoming the approval by Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan (LY) of a supplementary defense budget that will strengthen Taiwan’s deterrence capabilities against growing People’s Republic of China...
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio raising deep concern over the Department’s plans to close Camp As Sayliyah (CAS) in Qatar and relocate more than 1,100 Afghan allies to third countries rather than allow them to...