Jeanne Shaheen

I think for what we have seen in New Hampshire is that there are many school districts who if they just had a little bit of grant money could attract those private companies to help them support those kinds of programs.

We also ought to tell young women that they get paid more if they are in those STEM jobs, something that I think we don't often enough point out to students.

I would argue that one of the challenges is that people are not being held accountable in a way that sends a very strong message to others that they serve with that this is unacceptable behavior.

I thank the Senator, and thank the Senator for his fight to help as we try to prevent people across this country from losing their healthcare.

Dry dock capacity is a driving factor in scheduling and executing maintenance on our ships and submarines

Can I also ask you, General Dunford, if you would talk about, deconfliction aside, how we are or are not working with the Russians in Syria?

I guess the second question I had was, does that compromise our strategy for clearing ISIS in the Euphrates River Valley?

This comes as Russia-backed forces encircle United States troops and their partners in al-Tanf.

So there has been no threat that we have to remove our air base there.

Well, thank you. I very much appreciate that, and I know the people in New Hampshire do as well.

So what does it say to our allies that we have not been willing to take any overarching action against Russia for what they did?

One of the things that really impressed me was the person who said, you know, if you are not willing to do anything about what Russia did in the United States intervening in your electoral system, fundamental to your democracy, how should…

So just as they are engaging in a military buildup, just as they are engaging in the cyber intrusions, that the other thing they are engaging in is an effort to undermine Western democracies.

But is the overarching strategy not not so much who the winners and losers are, but it is to undermine the public confidence in a democracy and how it works?

The challenge with, in this case, the Russian hack with so much of the information being classified is that the American public does not know what is going on.

How can we help encourage the private sector that we are relying on to come to the table?

I think research and development on different ways of doing fuel is going to be important.

One of the things that I think the military has done an excellent job of is research into alternative ways to make us less dependent on those fuel lines.

I certainly agree with that.

I think there is some room in the sanctions regime, but there is not a lot left in there but there are some and we should apply all of those that we can before we are left with only the other choice.

One of the things that we heard from a panel of private sector but some former officials on North Korea on Tuesday was that the only impetus to encourage China to engage with North Korea in the way that we would like in order to help us…

I would urge for a budget to have predictability so we can keep on that track.

I think that is less well known.

The National Guard has a counter-drug task force that has provided critical support to law enforcement in New Hampshire.

We have cyber actors that are doing the work for nation states, but they may not be in the military.