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WASHINGTON — Last night, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined PBS News Hour to discuss the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza and her vote for the Joint Resolutions of Disapproval to block weapons sales to Israel. During the interview, Ranking Member Shaheen emphasized the need to...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and member of the Appropriations Committee, and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), member of the Appropriations Committee, introduced the Supporting Ukraine Act of 2025. This bipartisan legislation gives President Trump an additional tool to force...

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, released the following statement: “It’s absurd that the Trump Administration just sanctioned a sitting Brazilian Supreme Court...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tim Kaine (D-VA), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), announced their intent to file privileged legislation to challenge President Donald Trump’s tariffs on goods from Brazil in response to steps Brazil is...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen, (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement in support of Joint Resolutions of Disapproval regarding proposed foreign military sales to Israel: "After the heinous attacks of October 7th, no one can or should dispute that Israel has a right to...

WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and John Curtis (R-UT), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced bipartisan legislation to strengthen America’s national and economic security by bolstering partnerships with allies to secure the global supply of...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth expressing concern regarding reports that Microsoft allowed engineers based in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to access and maintain critical Department of Defense (DOD)...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick regarding the Administration’s recent decision to ease U.S. export controls on artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) without...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rick Scott (R-FL), Tim Kaine (D-VA) and John Curtis (R-UT), led a bipartisan resolution in support of the Venezuelan people in honor of the one-year anniversary of Nicolas Maduro’s theft of the Venezuelan presidential election. The...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement on President Trump’s revised deadline of “10 or 12 days” for Russia to end its war in Ukraine: “Too many innocent lives are at stake for President Trump to let Putin continue playing him for time. This...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a statement on the Trump Administration's announcement that following its “foreign assistance review,” it is seeking to terminate half of the programs under the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), including the Zambia and...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Tim Kaine (D-VA), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, led their colleagues in sending a letter to President Donald Trump expressing serious concerns regarding his threats to start...

WASHINGTON—On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined the BBC News’ World Service to denounce the Trump Administration’s plan to incinerate nearly $10 million in taxpayer-funded family planning supplies. During the interview, Ranking Member Shaheen emphasized that these are...

WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rick Scott (R-FL), Tim Kaine (D-VA) and John Curtis (R-UT), released the following statement of support for the Venezuelan people: “As the one-year anniversary of Nicolas Maduro’s theft of the Venezuelan presidential election approaches,...

WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement on the Foreign Relations Committee's passage of Mike Waltz, nominee for U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations: “I disagree with Mike Waltz on some issues, including his use of unclassified systems to...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), released the following statement after the passage of a law that will undermine Ukraine’s critical anti-corruption institutions, including the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the...

WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released a statement on reports that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has returned at least two Afghan families to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. According to multiple credible reports, the UAE began deportations as early as July 10 and...

WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered opening remarks at a full committee hearing, “Dismantling Transnational Criminal Organizations in the Americas.” In her remarks, Ranking Member Shaheen underscored the threat posed by illicit transnational criminal organizations...

WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered opening remarks at a committee hearing on the nominations of Jason Evans to be Under Secretary of State for Management, Thomas Rose to be Ambassador to Poland, Bill White to be Ambassador to Belgium and Peter Lamelas to be...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: “I am gravely concerned by the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza where 76% of the civilian population are expected to face emergency or catastrophic levels of hunger...