Jeanne Shaheen: “I think we ought to make these programs permanent so we do not have to go through this process periodically.”

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

If we can’t shut down the funding for the war machine that Russia is using against Ukraine, then they’re going to keep at it.

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.

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.