Jeanne Shaheen: “I want to start with that because in the strategy the State Department acknowledges that a visible U.S. and NATO naval…”

The cost of [the] United States response is approaching $1 billion," they wrote. "Investment now in voluntary family planning is fiscally rational in addition to being morally urgent.

From search and rescue to securing U.S. coasts and waters to ensuring marine environmental protection, the Coast Guard is critical to making New England’s shores and waterways safer.

It’s outrageous the Administration would try to shortchange our troops and their families from receiving the full benefits that they have earned through service and sacrifice.

These awards suggest that the Department intends to select awardees for federal funding based on their political ideology, not in the interest of American taxpayers or national security.