I come to the floor this afternoon to oppose the nomination of Betsy DeVos, President Trump's choice to be Secretary of Education. I fundamentally disagree with my colleague from Texas who said earlier that this is a fight about power and…
Jeanne Shaheen
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Jeanne Shaheen is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from New Hampshire, a position she has held since January 3, 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first woman to be elected governor of New Hampshire, serving from 1997 to 2003. During her tenure in the Senate, Shaheen has focused on issues such as healthcare, education, and national security, often advocating for policies that support working families and promote economic growth.
The military piece is the easy piece. It is the diplomatic and what comes next that is the hard piece.
I came to the floor today to join with Senators and people across this country in speaking out against the President's misguided and, I believe, destructive Executive order that has abruptly closed our borders to all refugees as well as…
I am pleased to follow my neighbor from Vermont, Senator Patrick Leahy. We also had a very inspiring march in the capital of New Hampshire on Saturday that Senator Hassan and I both attended. But I am not here to talk about that so much as…
I want to hear from you that you will be an advocate for the budget of the Small Business Administration, because what we saw in the last Republican administration is that they cut SBA's budget by about 32 percent.
Today about 60 percent of all maternal deaths take place in humanitarian situations like refugee camps or areas that have been affected by conflict.
He recently called it in a tweet just a club for people to get together and talk and have a good time.
I am disturbed by some of the President-elect's comments that are different than those positions you have enunciated here about the institutions that the United States helped create after World War II.
He was amazingly nonchalant about the future of the European Union and the Transatlantic Alliance.
I think sometimes the idea of access to family planning services is conflated with abortion, and it is a very different issue.
I was--I appreciated your comments about disagreeing with the idea of a registry for any particular group in the United States, for Muslims.
I have to say that unfortunately, as strong as I believe our ambassador to the U.N. can be, the President's words are often taken with much more weight.





