WASHINGTON— Last week, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Jim Risch (R-ID), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced the Mobilizing and Enhancing Georgia’s Options for Building Accountability, Resilience, and Independence (MEGOBARI) Act. This bipartisan...
WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Susan Collins (R-ME) introduced a bipartisan resolution recognizing March 8, 2025, as International Women’s Day. The resolution celebrates the achievements of women and girls around the globe and underscores the significant...
WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, met with co-founders of the Common Man for Ukraine, a non-profit that delivers humanitarian aid, food and other critical supplies to Ukrainian orphans and families based in Plymouth, New Hampshire. During this visit, Shaheen heard...
WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chris Coons (D-DE), 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), issued the following statement after United States Agency...
WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Michael Bennet (D-CO) released the following statement on the Trump administration’s 25 percent tariffs on U.S. trading partners, Canada and Mexico:
“President Trump’s decision to impose across-the-board tariffs on Canada and...
WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, pressed Christopher Landau, Michael Rigas and Matthew Whitaker, nominees for Deputy Secretary of State, Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources, United States Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic...
WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered an opening statement during a hearing titled “Advancing American Interests in the Western Hemisphere.” In her remarks, Ranking Member Shaheen said that China and Russia are rapidly expanding their influence in Latin America and...
WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement after President Donald Trump’s Joint Address to Congress:
“President Trump’s address this evening laid bare a cynical and profoundly dangerous approach to America’s global leadership. His 25 percent...
WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered opening remarks at the hearing on the nomination of Christopher Landau to be Deputy Secretary of State, Michael Rigas to be Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources and Matthew Whitaker to be United States...
WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement on the Trump administration’s decision to pause military aid to Ukraine:
“This act of retribution against our ally, who is on the frontlines defending freedom and democracy, is not only shameful—it is...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement on President’s Trump attempt to install an Acting Chair of the Boards of both the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) and the United States African Development Foundation (USADF) to dismantle their programs...
WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the U.S. 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) issued the following statement...
WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined CNN’s News Central to rebuke President Donald Trump’s pro-Russia rhetoric, discuss his proposed Ukraine mineral deal and condemn the administration’s decision to side with Russia at the United Nations earlier this week....
WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Brian Schatz (D-HI), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs, sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio regarding decisions this week to fire or place on...
WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the U.S. 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) issued the following statement on the...
WASHINGTON—This week, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Brian Schatz (D-HI), Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Cory Booker (D-NJ), members of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to President Donald Trump expressing deep concern about the proposed efforts to eliminate a...
WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released a statement on the decision by the Trump Administration to place thousands of federal employees at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on leave and taking steps to terminate 1,600 other employees....
WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Thom Tillis (R-NC) led a bipartisan resolution acknowledging the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The resolution expresses the U.S. Senate’s unwavering support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and...
WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Jim Risch (R-ID), Ranking Member and Chair of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with Senators Pete Ricketts (R-NE) and Chris Coons (D-DE), released the following statement on reports that Thailand may imminently send 48 Uyghur men back to China, where the Chinese...
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Thom Tillis (R-NC) took to the Senate floor to speak about their recent bipartisan delegation visit to Kyiv, Ukraine. The Senators spoke about the brave Ukrainians on the front lines of combatting Putin’s brutal invasion, the...