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Maggie Hassan
@maggiehassan· Democratic · NH· Dec 19, 2018

I rise today to join my colleagues in urging approval of Chai Feldblum. The EEOC is a vital bipartisan agency that enforces workers' civil rights and helps protect them from harassment and discrimination while on the job. The EEOC has long…

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Dec 19, 2018

Without a doubt, and we saw that firsthand, as you remember. When we saw them guarding our outposts, when we saw them in the communities, when we saw them in the detention facilities, trying to abide by international standards with respect…

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Dec 19, 2018

Not at all. In fact, if you look at this map, you can see this orange color. That is one of the pockets that remains of ISIS. Right here. We have not yet eradicated ISIS, and that does not account for some of the cells that exist…

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Dec 19, 2018

Absolutely not. In fact, they talked about how pleased they were with the gains we had made, with the partnership, with the SDF, with what they were seeing in terms of stabilizing those communities, people coming back to their homes…

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Dec 19, 2018

You talk about those 700 prisoners. A number of them are foreign fighters. A number of them are ISIS fighters from Syria and Iraq. What do you think will happen to those detainees who are being held by the Syrian Democratic Forces if we…

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Dec 19, 2018

I am in distress to be on the floor of the Senate today with my colleague, Senator Graham, to express our deep and profound disappointment in President Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northeast Syria. We had the opportunity…

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Annie Kuster
@anniekuster· Democratic · NH· Dec 18, 2018

I appreciate your personal commitment. I have literally heard that five times, and veterans are dying every single day.

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Annie Kuster
@anniekuster· Democratic · NH· Dec 18, 2018

Does that program have functional capacity at all the VSNs around the country as well?

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Annie Kuster
@anniekuster· Democratic · NH· Dec 18, 2018

New Hampshire is one of the rare States without a full service VA Hospital, and I think we are all trying to find this balance of care at the VA.

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Annie Kuster
@anniekuster· Democratic · NH· Dec 18, 2018

What are you going to do about getting the right people in the right place?

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Annie Kuster
@anniekuster· Democratic · NH· Dec 18, 2018

I very much appreciate the progress that is being made by the VA on the opioid epidemic.

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Annie Kuster
@anniekuster· Democratic · NH· Dec 18, 2018

We can't really respond here in our oversight function to the concept of doing your best if we don't know what your goals are.

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Annie Kuster
@anniekuster· Democratic · NH· Dec 18, 2018

I think certainly my constituents, but I think constituents across this country were so shocked and concerned to read today about this issue that your Department had only spent 1 percent of the $6 million for suicide prevention.

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Dec 12, 2018

we will soon be voting in this Chamber on S. Res. 64, which is a Congressional Review Act resolution looking at a Treasury Department rule that I believe will promote dark money in politics. Since the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens…

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Maggie Hassan
@maggiehassan· Democratic · NH· Dec 11, 2018

I rise to join my colleagues in honoring and paying tribute to my friend and mentor, Senator Heidi Heitkamp. I am particularly and profoundly grateful for both her trailblazing work mentoring women who want to run for public office and her…

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Jeanne Shaheen
@jeanneshaheen· Democratic · NH· Nov 28, 2018

Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you to my colleagues Senator Markey and Senator Whitehouse. I am pleased to join both of you, who have done such a tremendous job in leading on this issue of trying to get everyone to wake up to the…

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Maggie Hassan
@maggiehassan· Democratic · NH· Nov 27, 2018

the critical thing has been to help patients understand that just because care is low cost--lower cost does not mean it is lower quality.

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Maggie Hassan
@maggiehassan· Democratic · NH· Nov 27, 2018

New Hampshire also has an all-claims database, and actually, I will give a shout-out to my state. We were the first ones in the country to do it.

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