Press Releases

(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) today joined Senate colleagues to introduce the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act, legislation that...

(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and U.S. Representative Nita Lowey (NY-17) today re-introduced the bipartisan Peace Corps Equity Act in the Senate and...

(Washington, DC) – The U.S. Senate today advanced Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s (D-NH) bipartisan energy efficiency legislation, the Shaheen-Portman Energy Savings and...

U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) released the following statement after Executive Councilor Debora Pignatelli announced her retirement: “For almost 30 years Deb worked...

(Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Congresswomen Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01) and Annie Kuster (NH-02) released the following...

The New Hampshire congressional delegation will join state and military officials at a Freedom Salute to honor members of Charlie Company, the 238th MEDEVAC unit for their...

(Portsmouth, NH) – U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), and Representative Annie Kuster (NH-2) hosted Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James at Pease Air...

(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) released the following statement after the White House announced plans to re-nominate Cheryl LaFleur to serve as a...

(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) today introduced the Shaheen-Stabenow Small Business Access to Capital Act, which would...

(Washington, DC) –  In response to new Pentagon figures demonstrating a 50 percent increase in reports of sexual assaults by members of the military, U.S. Senator...

Washington, D.C. – Today, a diverse coalition of industry leaders sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)...

(Washington, DC) – In a continued effort to combat prescription drug addiction and abuse in New Hampshire, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) today urged Senate appropriators...

(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) released the following statement today after a minority of Senators blocked action on the Minimum Wage Fairness Act,...

(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) is welcoming the announcement of new national guidelines to combat sexual assault on college campuses that recognize the...

(Washington, DC) – As bipartisan momentum builds behind Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Rob Portman’s (R-OH) efforts to pass a comprehensive energy efficiency bill,...

(Washington, DC) -  U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) went to the Senate floor this afternoon to urge her colleagues to increase the federal minimum wage from $7.25 an hour...

(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) released the following statement welcoming the Supreme Court’s ruling to uphold the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule...

(Washington, DC) – In advance of the Senate’s consideration of legislation to increase the minimum wage, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) today is citing data that...

U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) is calling on President Obama to launch a formal investigation “of gross misconduct by certain Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)...

U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) is today calling on the IRS to implement common sense reforms to better protect taxpayer dollars after it was reported that the agency paid out...