Jeanne Shaheen

I appreciate your tireless efforts to promote American values around the world.

We urge Congress to build on this earlier action and strengthen the MTM benefit in Medicare Part D through support of legislation such as that introduced by Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) and Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), S. 776.

They were very pleased to see our proposal to increase the European Reassurance Initiative fourfold.

I had the opportunity recently to meet in Brussels with officials from Europe and from particularly Eastern Europe and the Baltics.

We need to deal with sequestration and that it poses an imminent threat to our national security

One of the things that, obviously, our continued readiness depends on is the effectiveness of our Guard and Reserve.

One concern that they asked me about that I could not answer was why the decision seems to have been made to preposition the equipment.

Do we have capacity to inflict serious harm to Russia's infrastructure?

I am, certainly, a big proponent of our having passed those sanctions.

I think, given the challenges we're--that Europe is facing right now, that looking at how we can provide that kind of additional support is really important.

A recent RAND report found that current NATO force structure in Europe, and I quote, "cannot successfully defend the territory of its most exposed members."

One of the things that I am very concerned about, with respect to the sanctions and their enforcement, is the fact that we have still have sitting in the Banking Committee the nomination of Adam Szubin to be the person at the Department of…

If confirmed, I will continue to press the need for Ukraine to safeguard basic human rights, including transparency and the right of due process for all of its citizens.

We continue to believe that there is no military resolution to the crisis, but Ukraine has the right to defend itself.

Sanctions are part in Burundi of a broader strategy that is ongoing, and that I think is a critical piece of this.

The lack of a President would be a challenging governance question.

I think we have--particularly our Department of Homeland Security has learned a lot because of what we experienced last summer on our southern border.

They have been a heavy advocate of the burden-sharing plan that now is being inputted by the EU.

Malta has been very involved in the current refugee crisis and the current discussions.

Well, thank you. I think anything we can do to encourage that project and others are very important as we look at the long-term stability for the region.

I certainly hope they will continue those kinds of symbolic gestures because I think they are very important in reducing tensions within the region.

I was very excited when I saw that Serbia and Kosovo had reached an initial agreement on how to move forward several years ago.

I share his belief that we need to try and be more focused on what is happening in the Balkans.

I look forward to getting reports as part of this committee on the progress that is being made on this issue because it is obviously a critical challenge that needs to be overcome for the Peace Corps to continue to do the kind of work that…

Our commitment to sexual assault and the risk reduction and response aspects of it really start with our director.