Jeanne Shaheen

I just think a government, top-down approach is not going to be effective, that we have to be, exactly, innovative, creative, using these networks.

But, listen, it is--nowadays--today's dictators, they do not really work through censorship, they work through putting so much disinformation out there, people cannot tell, you know, the good from the bad, disinformation from real…

There is extraordinary distrust from top-down information.

We have been having a series of hearings in the Armed Services Committee talking about military reform.

Clearly, Russian propaganda has become a strategic export, designed to promote the agenda of Vladimir Putin abroad.

There is an attempt to try to control what is being released, at what time, and when, and get a deeper understanding of those new networks to understand how to mold public opinion even deeper.

America's investment in public diplomacy is about more than countering a single country.

To what extent do we think those are being fed by Russian propaganda?

How are we coordinating with our European allies to combat Russian propaganda?

It is about protecting the rules-based system across Europe and around the world.

Russian propaganda kills. It not only kills reason and common sense, it literally kills.

It is about saying no to borders changed by force, to big countries intimidating their neighbors.

I would hope that we would do everything possible to try and urge them to join Europe and the rest of the international community in doing everything we can to support the refugees.

I certainly believe that the number and flow of refugees poses a real threat to Europe, to the European Union.

Thank you both for being here today and for your service.

I think, you know, one of the reasons why the Normandy meeting went better on October 2 was because what President Putin heard from President Obama, from Chancellor Merkel, and from President Hollande, particularly on canceling fake…

Some of us just met with some Ukrainian parliamentarians who were here, and they were quite--seemed very anxious about what is going to happen with Minsk II...

One of the things that I think we would probably all agree that has helped with progress in Ukraine has not just been the will of the people of the country, which is obviously the most important, but it has been support from the…

To what extent do you think the leadership in the Rada, the elected officials, understand the importance of addressing corruption?

I would just urge NIH to think about all of the ways in which you can engage on this issue.

I think it should rise to the level of the kind of cross-agency--it is a crisis.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to follow up on the concerns that you are raising about opioid abuse and also heroin, the fact that it has led to a heroin epidemic. That is a huge challenge that we are facing in the Northeast and…

I urge the Committee to support this simple measure which will provide some immediate help to relieve the crisis.

As a matter of basic fairness to our Nation's veterans, we have got to do better.

As every Member of this Committee knows full well, one of the most complex challenges facing this Committee and Congress over the next several years will be the growing backlog of veterans disability claim appeals.