Senate Foreign Relations Committee

WASHINGTON – Last week, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Ben Luján (D-NM), Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging the State Department to restore funding that helps safeguard American livestock at risk from the ongoing spread of New World Screwworm (NWS) and other pests or highly contagious and transmissible diseases.

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Cory Booker (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Africa & Global Health Policy, Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) issued the below statement calling for peaceful, fair elections ahead of the August 13th elections in Zambia. “The United States values its long-standing partnership with Zambia.

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. SenatorJim Risch (R-Idaho), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, partnered with Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) to lead the introduction of the Assuring the Future of Tibet Act. The bipartisan bill would strengthen U.S. engagement with the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), the democratically elected representative of the Tibetan people, and ensure that American support for Tibet endures beyond the lifetime of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued a statement following the introduction of the bipartisan Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026 in the U.S. House of Representatives by Representatives Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Steny Hoyer (D-MD).

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement after the Senate passed the bipartisan Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026: “Today, the Senate sent Vladimir Putin an unambiguous and bipartisan message in the only language he understands: pressure. The Lindsey O.

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, spoke on the Senate floor to urge Senate passage of the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026. The Shaheen-championed bill would impose mandatory sanctions against Russian political leadership, Russian financial institutions and the Russian shadow fleet to curb the Kremlin’s revenues funding the war in Ukraine.

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delivered the following remarks ahead of Senate passage of The Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, which would impose critical new sanctions on Russia and those enabling its war in Ukraine: “Just last week I stood in this chamber and asked my colleagues to join me in moving this bill forward, and many of them—from both sides of the aisle—did so.

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Thom Tillis (R-NC), co-chairs of the Senate NATO Observer Group, led a bipartisan resolution celebrating the 35th anniversary of the independence of Ukraine from the former Soviet Union.

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and James Lankford (R-OK) introduced the Lebanon Sanctions, Stabilization and Support Act, legislation to support Lebanon’s rule of law and democratic institutions through targeted sanctions, support for expanding the state’s civil authority, and security assistance to help the Lebanese state establish a monopoly of force over its territory, disarm Hezbollah, integrate...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered opening remarks during a committee hearing entitled, “Protecting Americans from Global Scam Operations: Assessing the U.S. Response.” The hearing focused on transnational criminal organizations behind online scam operations and the bipartisan Scam Compound Accountability and Mobilization (SCAM) Act. You can watch her opening remarks here.