Jeanne Shaheen

I hope, as you work to finalize the agreement, that you will take into consideration not only the interest of the sugar producers...

We have had, for far too long, a debate in this Congress that has held up the critical operations of EXIM Bank.

I hope you will take into consideration small States like New Hampshire where the volume may not be as great...

I was disappointed, as we discussed yesterday, to see that the budget request reduces funding for the Commercial Service.

I think that American businesses, when they have a level playing field, can compete with any other business in the world, and I think those efforts to address dumping cases are very important.

I think you just made a very good argument for why the international marketing that is done through Brand USA is a program we should continue.

I appreciate that, and I hope that you will continue to work with the fishing industries in the Northeast as we address this, because this is the last straw that could really break the fishing industry in New Hampshire.

I am going to repeat that, because I think it is important--95 percent since 2012 because of the Federal regulations restricting their catch.

I fear that the budget would leave many of our shorelines and seacoasts unprotected.

I do not see how eliminating programs like the EDA and the Manufacturing Extension Program really make good fiscal sense.

I was also disappointed to hear that the department proposes to eliminate NIST's Manufacturing Extension Partnership.

I am encouraged by the new administration's interest in tackling the backlog of investment in our country's infrastructure needs.

I appreciate the challenges that the Navy has, given Congress' failure to address the budget issues.

How concerned are we about that and about our capacity at that point to be able to offset what we expect China to be doing?

But I also understand that when a program is working for students and making a difference in their lives, to pull that rug out from under them with nowhere else to go is a defeat for the policy and a defeat for the student.

So why are you going to make the students in New Hampshire suffer for the fact that there are programs in some places that are not working as well as they should?

Why are you reducing opportunities for hardworking Granite State students to earn the money they need for college by eliminating the work study program, by eliminating the opportunity to get those subsidized student loans?

A State like New Hampshire doesn't have the funds to put together programs if you take away the Federal dollars that support these at-risk kids.

There will be. If I could ask one final question because not only is this effort in the Senate happening behind closed doors, but initially it excluded women. Women are more than 50 percent of this country. We have particular needs when it…

Actually, the New Hampshire Hospital Association also opposes the bill for the very same reason. We have hospitals at risk if this bill is passed.

If my colleague will yield once more, last year we passed the 21st Century Cures Act, which appropriated $1 billion--$500 million this year and $500 million next year--to address the heroin and opioid epidemic we are having, and in the…

Those numbers came out while I was speaking on the floor, because I was talking about the first House-passed bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act. What the Senator from Illinois is telling me is that the numbers for the bill they passed…

I am particularly concerned about these reports in light of both the current Federal court injunction preventing implementation of the refugee portion of the President's executive order.

In New Hampshire, we have the second highest overdose rate death rate in the country.

I was also very disappointed to see that what appears to be a zeroing out of the countering violent extremism section of your budget.