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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s attempt to illegally rescind $4.9 billion in congressionally-approved funding: “President Trump’s attempt to rescind $4.9 billion in funding that Congress already approved...

WASHINGTON – This week, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, conducted three interviews with NPR Radio, CNN International and the BBC World Service from Beirut, Lebanon, where she led a bipartisan delegation to the Middle East. During the interviews, Ranking Member Shaheen discussed her visit...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC), Co-Chairman of the Helsinki Commission, released the following statement on Israel's strikes in Damascus, Syria: "We just returned from Syria, where we heard directly from...

WASHINGTON – This week, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led a bipartisan delegation to Lebanon alongside Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) and met with the Lebanese leaders including President Joseph Auon, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam and Speaker of the...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led a bipartisan delegation with Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) to Syria and met with President Ahmed Al-Sharaa. Ranking Member Shaheen is the first member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to visit Syria since the fall of the...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led a bipartisan and bicameral delegation with Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) to Jordan, where they conducted a series of meetings with Jordanian officials, including His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan. Ranking Member Shaheen and...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a statement on President Trump's meeting with President Zelenskyy and European Allies. “President Zelenskyy today demonstrated once again that he — not President Putin — is striving for peace. I am encouraged by President Trump's...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a statement on President Trump's meeting with President Putin. "President Trump appears to have been played yet again by Vladimir Putin. The President rolled out a red carpet and warmly greeted a murderous dictator on American...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee issued a statement commending the government of Lebanon’s decision to ensure only the state retains weapons.   "I commend the government of Lebanon for taking the important decision to ensure the Lebanese state retains a monopoly over...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a statement on President Trump's deadline for imposing additional sanctions on Russia. “Yet again, President Trump has apparently let President Putin walk across one of his red lines with zero consequences. Setting deadlines and...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Chris Coons (D-DE), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a statement on a potential meeting between President Trump and President Putin. “Given President Trump's record of face-to-face meetings with President Putin, I have real concerns that Putin will see this as a reward and another...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Representative Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), Ranking Member of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee released the following statement on the anniversary of the August 7, 1998, attacks on U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement on the seventeenth anniversary of Russia’s illegal war on Georgia and subsequent occupation of Abkhazia and South Ossestia. “Russia’s 2008 invasion of Georgia should have been a wake-up call to the...

Report outlines how Trump’s inaction has weakened U.S. leverage, enriched bad actors and emboldened Putin to keep war going Read the full report (PDF) WASHINGTON – Today, ahead of President Trump’s latest self-imposed deadline for Russia to end its war against Ukraine, the minority staffs of the Foreign Relations and Senate Banking Committees—led...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio raising concern over the ongoing situation of vulnerable third country nationals—including asylum seekers—who were removed by the Trump Administration from the United States to Panama and Costa...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and John Cornyn (R-TX), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced new bipartisan legislation today to sanction Chinese entities providing the overwhelming majority of critical dual-use technology that Russia relies...

WASHINGTON – Today,?U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chris Coons (D-DE), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Peter Welch (D-VT) introduced the Safeguarding the Integrity of Human Rights Reports Act, which would...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Jim Risch (R-ID), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Ted Budd (R-NC), Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Rick Scott (R-FL), introduced the International Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA). This legislation seeks to reauthorize and enhance...

WASHINGTON — Last night, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined PBS News Hour to discuss the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza and her vote for the Joint Resolutions of Disapproval to block weapons sales to Israel. During the interview, Ranking Member Shaheen emphasized the need to...