Press Releases

(Washington, DC) – In a letter this week to President Barack Obama, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) expressed opposition to a provision in the...

(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Susan Collins (R- ME) today reintroduced legislation that would make all veterans with a service-connected...

(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) are calling on the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to launch an independent investigation...

“The signing of this bill is the culmination of years of hard work, resulting in a historic expansion of health care access for our veterans so that the VA can ultimately...

U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen met with veterans and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) officials in Gorham and Littleton this afternoon to discuss historic reforms to the VA that...

(Merrimack, NH) – U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) joined New Hampshire veterans at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8641 this morning to discuss...

(Washington, DC)- U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) released the following statements tonight after the Senate passed bipartisan legislation...

Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) released the following statement after the Senate cleared Robert McDonald's nomination to head the Department of Veterans...

(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) today announced that compromise legislation to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)...

(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) announced that the Fiscal Year 2015 defense appropriations bill approved today by the Senate...

(July 14, 2014 - Manchester, NH - U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) meets with the New Hampshire Chapter of American Ex-Prisoners of War) (Manchester, NH) – U.S. Senator...

(Washington, DC) – On the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision striking down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), U.S. Senator Jeanne...

U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) reacted with disappointment today to a Department of Justice announcement that declared that some federal agencies have been unable to extend...

(Washington, DC) – New Hampshire U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) today announced that they have successfully included language in a bipartisan...

U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) today is renewing her call for immediate action to address the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) crisis after a new report detailed systemic...

U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) released the following statement on 70th anniversary of D-Day: “Today we remember the bravery and selflessness of the American and Allied...

(Washington, D.C.) – The Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved this morning several of U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s (D-NH) longstanding priorities to...

(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) introduced legislation today designed to address the gaps and gross mismanagement of Department of Veteran Affairs (VA)...

(Washington, DC) – In response to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) report confirming allegations of gross mismanagement of VA...