The absence and the clarity of the fact that we will not provide them weapons actually undermines their hand at the negotiating table.
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 importance of providing military assistance to Ukraine, including defensive lethal weapons and light antiarmor weapons
Getting this strategy right will require firmness, patience, and solidarity with U.S. allies and friends in Europe.
What we are seeing is a dramatic situation where all these gains might be reversed.
Ukraine must reform. I have focused on the case for arming Ukraine because without this there will not be a country to rebuild.
The Russian people and the world demand a transparent investigation into Mr. Nemtsov's murder and I sincerely hope we will see that.
Even as we focus here on the Russian Federation's outward aggression, clearly we cannot ignore the repression that is happening inside Russia.
Only the swift and the immediate action of the United States Government to train and equip the Ukrainians can stop Putin's strategy to deconstruct the transatlantic architecture.
I was disappointed to see a story yesterday about the first flight facing delay for the KC-46A.
The primary alternative fuels goal is to ensure operational military readiness, improve battlespace effectiveness, and further flexibility of military operations.
Since the Department rescinded the Direct Ground Combat and Assignment Rule in 2013, we have opened more than 91,000 positions that were previously closed to women.
Do you believe this level of funding is adequate to counter the threat posed by Russia?
To what extent is Assad's continued--I don't want to say 'control over Syria,' ... an obstacle to our fight against ISIL?
I've heard concerns from fishermen in New Hampshire, not just about the decisions that were made, but also about the lack of notice and about the lack of transparency.
I just think it's important for us to recognize that that is going to have a huge impact on the efforts, if those cuts go forward, the impact on the national security side, because of the drugs coming in.
As far as I can tell at the national level, we are not doing as much as we should be doing.
One police chief described it to me this way, he said, when we have someone shooting up at 2 o'clock in the afternoon in the parking lot of Target in Bedford, which is a very upscale community, we know we have a problem.
In New Hampshire in the last 10 years, we have seen people admitted to State treatment programs increase 90 percent for heroin use, 500 percent prescription drug use.
I hope that thought will also be given to how to ameliorate the impact on the fishing industry in New Hampshire.
I think we all share the concern that we want to see stocks rebound in the Gulf of Maine and in the Atlantic.
If I could ask my colleague a question, isn't it true, I say to Senator Durbin, that the bill you are talking about, the clean bill Senator Mikulski and I have introduced, is the legislation that was agreed to last December by Senator…





