Jeanne Shaheen: “Thank you very much, Senator Boxer and Senator Casey and Ranking Member DeMint for holding the hearing today.”

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.

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.

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

The United States cannot afford to look away from the threat that Tuberculosis poses to Americans’ health and global health security.