Jeanne Shaheen Quotes


We know that over a billion people live in poverty around the world, and most of them are women and girls. If we can improve their lives, that has a positive effect on their communities, on their families, on their countries.


Citations

Shaheen, Jeanne. "Floor Speech on Global Women's Issues." Congressional Record, United States Government Publishing Office, 15 Mar. 2017.

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Jeanne Shaheen
Jeanne Shaheen
  • Born: January 28, 1947
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Politician

Cynthia Jeanne Shaheen is an American politician and retired educator serving as the senior United States senator from New Hampshire since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first female U.S. senator in New Hampshire's history, the first elected female governor of New Hampshire and the first woman elected as both a governor and a U.S. senator, with the junior senator from New Hampshire and former governor of the state Maggie Hassan being the second woman to have occupied both of those roles.