Jeanne Shaheen: “I would just like to for the record acknowledge that we just had a very big visit in this country from the Pope.”

Congress expects the State Department to invest resources to advance human rights, democratic institutions, civil society, freedom of expression and worker rights.

Our fighting force is stronger when any American – regardless of their gender – can meet the toughest military standards in the world.

This legislation would level tough new sanctions on Russia and choke off key export markets for the energy it sells to fund its war machine.

This is a time in the country when people are losing faith in institutions, particularly young people. And so having these kinds of traditions that people can relate to that help humanize what goes on here I think is really important.