shaheen: i hope so. the fact is it is not enough to over 100 people a day are dying from overdose deaths because of suit's not enough to say, we are going to do this.i think histort we haddifference, and if we do'o soledad: it is so nice to have >> coming up next, from uber drivers in the san francisco to farmers in wisnet trump put in place to give more working americans choice in health care. sounds good, right? why are so many democrats fuming? meet the man who is proving that a difference when it comes to helping proe e. soledad: now to our feature we like to call "we are paying attentio busy." this week, obama care. it suris aboual something you've never likethat is the employee retire. it is complicated. when it comes to its impact on obamacare, it basically sets health care requirements for large businesses, allowing bypa. small businesses and hourly wage left out until president trump signed ae order changing the rules. that just went into fea group oa band together, form an association, and they

[applause] >> senator shaheen, is that likely? >> well, we've had a lot of people in the room who have an interest in what happens here. i would encourage you to talk to members of congress about your concerns. but in the context of recognizing that it has got to be across the budget. and it has not to deal not just with defense spending but also with the domestic side of the budget. until we do, it is not going to get done. i think it can get done. i will keep working for that. but i'm, we need a a lost he --t of help. you folks are in a good position to help us as we address this. >> what would you like us to take away from this forum? >> i think, absolutely beginning on the bca issue. i think linking the issue related to a broader, national, non-defense-led, national conversation about where we want our country to go, what the fiscal path is to get there. and defense will follow to general miller's point. we can build. we have the, talent, the skillset, with sufficient resources we can build the best military in the world well

reporter: most of the women at the shaheen center have been traumatized.ere, at least, they are provided with safety, support, and care -- and given the chance to regain control over their lives. host: around 650 million people around the world own a gun. almost half of these private individuals are from the u.s. the right to bear arms is firmly anchored in the american constitution, but it remains a controversial topic. in 2014, firearms were responsible for the deaths of 34,000 people in the u.s. two thirds of them were suicides. who exactly decides to go out and buy a gun? in surveys, nearly a third of all u.s. households have admitted to owning a pistol or rifle. the large majority of u.s. gun owners are white -- 81%. and almost three quarters are men -- b that mamay be about to change. >> good morning. >> good morning. reporter: these women are learning how to shoot. they're housewives, single mothers, and pensioners. they're middle class, and most of them have ever held a gun before. marchelle: my name is marchelle tig washington. this is trigger hap

senator shaheen of the great state of new hampshire. she is the first woman in u.s. history to be elected both governor and u.s. senator. she's been in the senate since 2009, on armed services foreign relations committee and appropriations and she just flew in from a very important vote in congress. she is particular, you have a particular interest in new hampshire's naval shipyard and naval air base. >> with that, i would like to start by reading a few quotes about the current state of the u.s. military. there are a few statistics i think you will find somewhat alarming. senator john mccain said recently perhaps the greatest harm to our national security and our military is self inflicted. we are killing more of our own people in training than our enemies are in combat. secretary mattis said recently, no enemy in the field has done more to harm the combat readiness of our military than sequestration, referring to the budget cuts that have been in place since 2013. if you look, if you listen to the vice chief of staff of the army, general dan allen said the army is o

shaheen girls are not allowed to sing, men and boys in the culture sing.wever, these girls inspired by devotional music are practicing songs but withly -- lyrics about girls' freedom defying everybody's expectations, they are about to record a cd. tonga like other parts of the south pacific, has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the world at school and at home children are beaten so badly that often they end up in the hospital. one girl told me that her teacher punished her for not doing her homework by hitting her on the head with the stapler. girls who belong to toletha are working to stop child abuse, the practice is virtually universal and it is never discussed. every two weeks, every week two girls meet at the local radio station to broadcast a call-in show, the girls do research and then they produce the show, they host the program and it's called my body, my rights. boys and girls threw out the 173 island called in and shared their story of abuse, they call in or text or e-mail, one 12-year-old girl told he her mother punished the chi

[applause] shaheen girls are not allowed to sing. only boys and their culture sing. however, these girls who are inspired by the music or practicing songs with lyrics about girls freedom. define everybody's expectations, they are about to record a cd. tonga. like other parts of the south pacific it has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the world. at school and home children are being beaten so badly they often end up in the hospital. one girl told me her teacher pressure for not doing her homework by hitting her on the head with a stapler. girls who belong to to lisa working to stop child abuse. the practice is universal and never discussed. every two weeks, -- every week, two girls meet at the local radio station to broadcast a college. the do the research and then they host the program and it is called, my body, my rights. boys and girls throughout the island : and share their stories of abuse. they call and text or e-mail. one girl told how her mother punish the children for not doing the dishes well and they were punished by having to throw silverw

and senator shaheen, whom i have testifyingor of testimon in front of many times. [laughter] >> it was a privilege. even though he is not here, george, who has been an honorary tonight and is in attendance. . i served as his special assistant from 1982101984. there is a saying that no man is his hero to his ballot -- valet and that is not true. george schulz is still my hero and he is living proof that the secretary of state with confidence of the president and a commitment to the national security policy can draw the very best out of the united states arms service to come push great ends for the country along the lines that general mcmaster just outlined in his speech. because this is the fifth time i have been here in five years, i am told that i am starting to feel like cato the elder, who ended all his speeches that carthage must be destroyed that is what i feel like here. that time i come and say it must be repealed. here i am the fifth year and saying it again. i think it is important to kind of put this in a larger context. all of the statistics you describe

democratic senator jeanne shaheen from new hampshire. i'm so glad you came on.e the questions you have that need answering? >> well, the question is, as one of the women who came into court and talked about larry nassar and she said, we can't put this behind us until we find out who else was responsible and who should have done something. and the fact is the us olympic committee over two decades ignored multiple reports of sexual abuse against larry nassar and yet he was allowed to continue to have unfettered access to the young women and the defense that usa gymnastics has said they didn't have -- they don't have a responsibility for the welfare of these young people. well that is just baloney. >> i was talking just a couple of hours ago to larissa bois, one of the victims. and we were talking about kayla maroney who said if just one adult had listened to one girl, others could have been saved. and i want to play for you, senator, what she told me. >> i was a child, i was 16. and i told a trusted adult that i was -- that i had concerns and she just couldn't bel

here is our middle east managing editor alan shaheen with more.hen i first saw this headline break over the weekend, i thought after the crackdown on corruption, that everything would state put in rehab. why do this protest publicly against the king's decision? alan: we don't know a lot of details. alan:what we know is that they're protesting government utility bills. shows that there is rising discontent after a crackdown of a risk. what happened is that according to saudi a media reports, the king decided to take action -- aa: swift action. they were given harsher statements. the main thing that this shows is that there is more do's consent. are we going to see more of this? tracy: that's the question. another big story in saudi arabia, they will spend billions to fenddefend citizens off attacks, as well as to balance rising fuel costs. more handouts for saudi citizens. there was austerity. they start rolling it back quite soon. >> that's a huge development. whether you agree with the measure or not, this is wrote. they would raise questions abo

so senator jeanne shaheen, thank you so much for joining us today. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> coming up, outrage over an offshore flip-flop. the trump administration reversed its plan for more coastal oil rigs, but only for the state of florida, the home of plmar-a-lago, and also, mayb more importantly, the home of a friend of the white house, governor rick scott. so what about everyone else? we'll talk about that, next. oh, sorry i'm late, sir. i had a doctor's appointment. when you said you were at the doctor, but your shirt says you were at a steakhouse... that's when you know it's half-washed. now from downy fabric conditioner comes downy odor protect with 24-hour odor protection. downy's powerful formula conditions fibers to lock out odors all day. hey, your shirt's making me hungry. ha ha, derek. downy and it's done. your insurance on time. tap one little bumper, and up go your rates. what good is having insurance if you get punished for using it? news flash: nobody's perfect. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't

shaheen: mr. president, i ask permission to speak for up to ten minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. shaheen: let me applaud my colleague from west virginia, senator capito, for addressing the opioid epidemic. it is one place where i think we could come to some agreement around increasing resources as we come to an agreement on budget for the upcoming year. so thank you for your comments. mr. president, i came to the floor this morning because i believe the united states is a nation of laws. the bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law. we are blessed with a judicial system and federal law enforcement agencies that are respected worldwide for their integrity, impartiality. as lead democrat on the appropriations subcommittee on commerce, justice, and science. i have a responsibility, along with my chamber senator shelby, to ensure that the federal law enforcement, including federal prosecutors, have the resources they need to do their jobs. i also have the responsibility to ensure they are -- i am deeply troubled about the attacks on t

shaheen: madam president, i join my colleagues on the floor today to speak in opposition to the pending legislation to outlaw abortion procedures after 20 weeks. this is yet another extreme effort to allow the government to interfere in the health care decisions that should be strictly between a woman and her family and her physician. this latest attempt is particularly dangerous. it would impose prison sentences of up to five years on physicians who don't fulfill the laws deliberately, burdensome requirements for documentation and reporting. and it would even impose a prison sentence up to five years on doctors who fail to inform a law enforcement agency about another doctor who failed to meet the law's requirements. viewed more broadly, this bill is part of a continuing campaign to take away women's constitutional right to privacy. a right that protects profoundly personal decisions concerning our bodies and our families. i remember very well the days prior to 1973 when abortion was outlawed in most states. an estimated 1.2 million women each year resorted to illegal abortions typical

cutting us criticism of russia's political system fast forward to march twenty seventh team senator shaheen introduces a bill to investigate b. russian propaganda outlet r.t. news as a foreign agent the foreign agents registration act was passed back in the late one nine hundred thirty s. and response to concerns about nazi propaganda i think is absolutely appropriate today for us to take a look at what russia and other countries may be doing to our news and since then switch on any congressional hearing and you'll probably hear our team mention once or twice propaganda machine contributed to the influence campaign by serving as a platform for criminal messaging using russian government funded outlets russian propaganda media outlets like r t we should be concerned about this propaganda arm r t and sputnik i think it's a propaganda arm of nato to be looking in responding to some of the russian propaganda in a different way and then tech giants joined in starting with google who removed r t from you tube premium advertising service even though they didn't find proof of any violations going o

senator shaheen: thank you. senator cotton: thank you for your appearance today and your service to your country. dr. kissinger, i want to return to a point you raised in your opening statement as well as written testimony. i will repeat it. you point out a paradox, the possibility that in north korea iran, an international effort intended to prevent a regime from destabilizing capabilities will perfect their very capacity. an outcome that was widely considered unacceptable is now on the verge of becoming irreversible. would you elaborate on what you -- why you think that is the case and what we could learn from the situation? mr. kissinger: with respect to north korea, it is the idea that we should -- that there might be a negotiation based on a freeze for freeze. the concern i had with the iranian agreement was that in a way it legitimized the emergence of iran as a nuclear power. it only delayed it by some years. the situation with north korea is even more acute because iran did not yet have a nuclear weapon.

his alleged words we discuss the incident with investigative journalist patrick henningsen summoned shaheen from the u.k. labor party. i certainly don't believe the president i certainly do believe. that some very strong very harsh very cruel and very undiplomatic words about other nations trump has been relatively safe disgraceful message and it's the comments that he made in the run up to the election he still managed to win but. he is not going to make america great again by making these ridiculous gaffes on the world stage if you look at the media reporting over the last eighteen months with anything related to donald trump dossiers that are presented to the media of things that he supposedly did or things he said i wouldn't trust anything coming out of the mainstream media much less any democrat senator or congressman clearly there's a partisan agenda here but clearly this is a president much like the foreign minister of britain boris johnson who continually will put his foot in it and in terms of trump it's a bit more dangerous because he has a twitter account these very active with.

condemning his alleged words we discussed the incident with investigative journalist patrick hannifin and shaheen from the u.k. labor party i certainly don't believe the president i certainly do believe. has said some very strong very harsh very cruel and very undiplomatic what about other nations trump has been relatively safe disgraceful message in a state comments that he made in the run up to the election he still managed to win but. he is not he's certainly not going to make america great again by making these ridiculous gaffes on the world stage if you look at the media reporting over the last eighteen months with anything related to donald trump dossiers that are presented to the media of things that he supposedly did or things he said i wouldn't trust anything coming out of the mainstream media much less any democrat senator or congressman clearly there's a partisan agenda here but clearly this is a president much like the foreign minister of britain boris johnson who continually will put his foot in it and in terms of trump it's a bit more dangerous because he has a twitter account these

his alleged words we discussed the incident with investigative journalist patrick endings in and shaheen from the u.k. labor party. i certainly don't believe the president i certainly do believe. has said some very strong very harsh very cruel and very undiplomatic words about other nations compassed been relatively safe disgraceful message and if the comments that he made in the run up to the election he still managed to win but. he is not going to make america great again by making these ridiculous gaffes on the world stage if you look at the media reporting over the last eighteen months with anything related to donald trump or dossiers that are presented to the media of things that he supposedly did or things he said i wouldn't trust anything coming out of the mainstream media much less any democrat senator or congressman clearly there's a partisan agenda here but clearly this is a president much like the foreign minister of britain boris johnson who continually will put his foot in it and in terms of trump it's a bit more dangerous because he has a twitter account these very active w

shaheen: madam president, i join my colleagues on the floor today to speak in opposition to the pending legislation to outlaw abortion procedures after 20 weeks. this is yet another extreme effort to allow the government to interfere in the health care decisions that should be strictly between a woman and her family and her physician. this latest attempt is particularly dangerous. it would impose prison sentences of up to five years on physicians who don't fulfill the laws deliberately, burdensome requirements for documentation and reporting. and it would even impose a prison sentence up to five years on doctors who fail to inform a law enforcement agency about another doctor who failed to meet the law's requirements. viewed more broadly, this bill is part of a continuing campaign to take away women's constitutional right to privacy. a right that protects profoundly personal decisions concerning our bodies and our families. i remember very well the days prior to 1973 when abortion was outlawed in most states. an estimated 1.2 million women each year resorted to illegal abortions typical

presenter iain dale, the founder of britain thinks, deborah mattinson, who you heard there, faiza shaheen of the centre for labour and social studies, and by the times columnist matthew parris. we should start with last year and you weren't the only one who said it last year. you got a lot right. you didn't show it! what happened last year, that the pundits got jeremy corbyn wrong? the central thing that happened was that younger voters turned out to vote. when you are predicting what is going to have an election, the best tools you have are how people have behaved last time. what we all did, this is why it wasn't just pollsters that politicians, ca nvassers, everybody read it wrong. matthew, have a go at this interesting question, will the young people turn up next time? what would be the working assumption now? i don't know why you are asking us, we got it so wrong last time. get some new pundits! you should never underestimate the conservative party's capacity to fail to infuse the population. it wasn't just jeremy corbyn's success but the conservative party just didn't fizz. young peo

shaheen mr. president. the presiding ficer:he senator from new hampshire. mrs. shaheen: mr. president, i join my colleagues on the floor today to speak in opposition to the nomination of alex michael azar to head the department of health and human services. mr. azar is, i believe, first and foremost, a product of the pharmaceutical industry with a long, consistent track record of sharply increasing drug prices during his tenure at lilly u.s.a. furthermore, his nomination makes clear that president trump didn't mean it when he said repeatedly during the campaign that pharmaceutical companies are, in quotes, getting away with murder and that he as president would dramatically reduce drug prices for seniors and all americans. mr. azar's nomination is yet one more example of the trump administration putting special interest above the public interest and public safety. mr. azar's long imposed any federal intervention in prescription drug pricing, things like allowing medicare to negotiate for drug prices, and of course his former company has profited handsomely from the governmen

. >> joining me now is democratic senator jeanne shaheen of new hampshire who serves on the foreign relationsvices committee. jeanine, welcome. i have spoken to former executives on facebook who are horrified about what facebook enabled russia to do. only last week i was covering senator carden's report on what we have not done to protect against this happening again. >> well, that's right and we have known since we got the first report on russian interference in our election, we have known this is a problem, that we needed to do something about it. we have seen it not just in the united states but across europe, in england with brexit, in france and germany for their elections. and we have an administration that has refused ed td to ackn that this is a problem. we have got the ceos in some of our top social media companies who have also refused to acknowledge the extent of the problem. >> which have got a statement from facebook from joe lean kent's reporting, is that facebook is a vastly different company from when it was first founded, in the past year we have worked to destroy the busines

senator shaheen's guest last night was the woman who had lost her child to the opioid crisis. it is everywhere, and no family is immune. >> and ultimate question, you're the most senior republican woman in the senate this year. a record number of women at "time magazine" was the avengers, first they marched,now they ran which is quite clever. how optimistic are you that women running would be interested in that and translate into actual power over here? >> we had some excellent candidates in arizona, an extraordinary woman of great accomplishment and the women in the senate stand the ed -- ideological spectrum as you might expect and we don't think alike and i always want to push back against that stereotype, but we do bring different life experiences to the job, and that does matter. i remember when i was first elected in 1997, there were only nine women in the senate. there were not a sufficient number of women to be represented and that's not good. now we have a record high of 22, but i'll tell you a great main e fact. when i was elected i was only the 15th woman in history

this is new hampshire democratic senator jeanne shaheen. the trump administration has had six months to configure a sanctions regime, sanctions based on a vote, as you heard from senator congress.-5 in and what did they come up with? they gave us this list, the unclassified list as senator cardin said, the oligarchs that are part of this list are taken from forbes magazine. amy: this comes as the cia director recently met with top russian officials, including the head of russian intelligence. the federal emergency management agency, known as fema, is ending shipments of food and water to puerto rico today, four months after hurricane maria devastated the island. about a third of puerto rico still has no electricity. some rural areas still have no clean running water. san juan mayor carmen cruz criticized the move while speaking at a gathering of latino leaders and washington, d.c., saying "while i am standing here with you, there are children without food in puerto rico. we need the help and it is not help we have paid for." she attended th

senator shaheen's guest last night was the woman who had lost her child to the opioid crisis. it is everywhere, and no family is immune. >> and ultimate question, you're the most senior republicanwoman in the senate this year . as leaders know, a record number of women at "time magazine" was the avengers, first they marched, now they ran which is quite clever. how optimistic are you that women running would be interested in that and translate into actual power over here? >> we had some excellent candidates in arizona, an extraordinary woman of great accomplishment and the women in the senate stand the ed ideological spectrum as you might expect and we don't think alike and i always want to push back against that stereotype, but we do bring different life experiences to the job, and that does matter. i remember when i was first elected in 1997, there were only nine women in the senate. there were not a sufficient number of women to be represented and that's not good. now we have a record high of 22, but i'll tell you a great main fact. when i was elected i was only the 15th wom

in this portion, marine and general robert muller spoke with new hampshire senator jeanne shaheen and other officials about military readiness. the discussion iran a little over an hour. [applause]

we do have senator shaheen from new hampshire is calling for a special committee to investigation thisss has broad powers due to the charter, due to the title ix funding to places like michigan state university. with subpoena power if necessary and get to the bottom of who was involved and what comes next. >> the coverage, let me just say, "the new york times" has a full page, well two full pages. take a look at what they've done today. they have run this digitally and in the print edition. yamiceh, you know how valuable, to be doing this not only on the front page but in this exposure. >> it's incredible, but it's what needed to happen, because these women essentially need to have voices, they need to have faces. if you think about the fact that usa gymnastics had not spoken bout this until after he was sentenced. that's incredible. the fact "the new york times" and others had to put these women out there for us to know who they are, to hear their voices. it speaks to the fact that usa j gymnastics has a lot of work to do. >> we're going to leave there for now, to be continued. thank

heinrich, cane, king, leahey, menendez, murphy, murray, paul, peters, reed, sanders, shots, schumer, shaheen, smith, stab now, van hol lin, warner, warren, whitehouse and widen. mr. lee, no. mr. jones, aye. mr. tesser, no. mr. gill grabrand, no. >> we heard that senator lindsey graham did vote no. at least one republican vote no. we also just heard senator jon tester vote no. a democrat of montana who was one of the senators the republicans thought they were going to be able to get. this vote is clearly going against the republicans. >> to hear lindsey graham voting no as we just did, jon tester voting no immediately after that call of the roll, at this point it doesn't look like there's a possibility for the republicans in this vote. >> no. i think thenlyhance mitch mcconnell has is slim to none and slim left town. you heard bob casey vote no. i only heard four democrats voting yes and with most of the democratic votes in. i think that basically it's clear this is going down to defeat. looks like there's going to be a shutdown. i agree with adam, there's no sign there's some last minute sav

from the commandant of the marine corps, the ceo of lockheed martin and new hampshire senator jeanne shaheenlockheed martin. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. [laughter]

shaheen: mr. president. mr. president, like i assume most of the rest of the members of the senate, i'm disappointed to date we have not reached a bipartisan agreement to reopen the government. i think it's important to note that there's a lot of shared frustration on both sides of the aisle about how we got here. leader mcconnell and senator graham and other republicans have expressed their exasperation at the fact that for weeks president trump hasn't stuck to a position for longer than a couple of hours and he has derailed several proposals that would have addressed the concerns that have been expressed by democrats in this body about how to move forward to keep the government open. thankfully there is also a lot of bipartisan consensus in the senate that we need to work together to fix our situation to get the government up and running again and to address some of the long-term challenges that have led to this moment. but in order to do this, we need the president and we need republican leadership to provide

marine corps commandant general robert neller joined locking martin ceo marillyn hewson, sir jeanne shaheen a former defense officials to talk about military readiness. fox news national security correspondent jennifer griffin moderated the panel. this hour and 15 15 minute discussion with part of the reagan national defense forum at

. >> senator shaheen read the recent ap story with the fbi concluded that this wasn't a sonic attack, basically ruled that out. as you know the fbi took a number of trips to cuba. they interviewed down there. they were very, very thorough in terms of what they did, and so then coming out with this report, which you can't comment on, would you tell us what your theories are of what happened. they have ruled that out. what are your theories of what you think happen? >> well, there's been, you know, when this thing has been looked at from an investigative standpoint, i don't think solely the acoustic element has been looked at. from the very beginning even going back to late february when we had that moment of a medical element associated with this, that it was shared with interagency community of what possibly could t be happening in havana. and though these events were associate with an acoustic element they were still looking at other possibilities. and so not to me with the fbi. i know this report was not put at publicly. >> what are your -- they have ruled that out. have you ruled i

and the three of us, along with a few other people -- senator shaheen and others -- have worked on this issue the last time that we saw some changes. and, in fact, when i first got to the senate, our first bill that we introduced, our new class back in 2006, was devoted to something related to this which was ethics reform which made some significant changes to lobbying rules as well as gift rules and other things. and then we went on to support in 2010 an end to the secret hold. and, obviously, this committee and members of this committee are now looking at changes to the sexual harassment policies that are in place in the senate. and just recently with the chairman's help, passed a haw -- a rule change that requires mandatory sexual harassment training. so there has been work year after year on these issues, and i thank senator lankford for bringing this to our attention. as you'll see from my remarks, i just feel that this is not the right moment to make these changes to the rule, and i will explain. many people refer to the senate as the world's greatest deliberative body because the

of john mccain, lindsey graham and marco rubio as well as democratic senators bob menendez, jeanne shaheen, and dick durbin. the strength and durability of our own political system relies on such bipartisan solutions to our national security challenges. i think those of you covering the senate foreign relations committee know that senator corker and i worked together, not this a partisan manner, in a nonpartisan manner, in order to advance the priorities of our country, and we have certainly done that in regards to the threat that russia poses to the united states. during the cold war, colonel rolf vonbreath, a longtime head of the active measures operations from the east german said a powerful adversary can only be defeated through a careful and shrewd effort to exploit even the smallest cracks between our enemies and within their elite. now, that was during the cold war. and the colonel would have used traditional media and methods to exploit these smallest cracks. it would have indeed been methodical, careful, and slow. he could never have imagined the havoc wreaked by today's modern te

senators john mccain, lindsay graham and marco rubio as well as democratic senators bob menendez, shaheen and dick durbin and strengthened the ability of the political system relies on bipartisan solutions to the national security challenges, and i think those of you who have been covering the senate relations committee know that senator corker and i work together not in a partisan matter to advance the priorities of our country and we've done that in the threat that russia poses to the united states. >> during the cold war, colonel bogden, a longtime head of the active measures operations from the east german side reportedly said a powerful adversary can only be defeated through a sophisticated and shrewd effort to exploit even the smallest cracks with our enemies and within their elite and that was during the cold war and the colonel would have used traditional media and methods to exploit these small cracks. it would have indeed been methodical, careful and slow. he could never have imagined the havoc made by the tools of the internet. the speed and sophistication of these weapons have

greatly to the enactment of that legislation, and on the democratic side, senator menendez, senator shaheen, and senator durbin. this report is an accumulation of a year's work. it had the professionalism and dedication and patriotism of the very talented staff at the senate foreign relations committee, and i want to acknowledge that because i know all of us recognize that our staffs are critically important to the work that we do here in the united states senate. damion murphy was our captain on this project. he was the one who provided the leadership to make sure that we had a thorough report, that we had an accurate report, and that our recommendations would be tailored to make our nation more secure. terrell henry provided incredible help throughout the entire year. laura kerry was an instrumental part of getting this done. megan barkley helped us with making sure that all of the sources were properly cited. i also want to acknowledge my democratic staff leader, jessica lewis, who really was the one who decided early that we could get this done and encouraged me to move forward. and las

shaheen: thank you, mr. president. the senate and the house right now are struggling to pass yet another short-term continuing resolution to avoid a federal shutdown at midnight on friday. for nine consecutive years now, since i've gotten to the senate, we have begun the fiscal year without regular appropriations bills being enacted into law. if we pass another continuing resolution this week, it will be the fourth continuing resolution for fiscal year 2018. there were three c.r.'s or continuing resolutions for fiscal year 2017. this government by c.r. is chaotic and it's disruptive. it's inflicting real damage on our armed forces and also on critical domestic programs that benefit people across this country. now, i live in a very small town in new hampshire called madberry. if our board of selectme selectn madberry committed this kind of budgetary malpractice, we would get rid of them. the fact is that the frantic scramble to pass a new c.r. by midnight on friday is yet another manufactured crisis here in washington.