Peter Biello: Senator, thank you for taking some time to speak with me.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen: I m happy to talk with you and hope that everyone out there is going to have a safe holiday.
Peter Biello: We are certainly all hoping for a safe and healthy holiday season. Senator Shaheen, this relief bill has a lot in it. Enhanced unemployment benefits, aid for schools and child care, housing support. What is most significant to you?
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen: Well, I think the individual help for families, whether it s an extension of the unemployment benefits or the pandemic relief checks, are very important to families. And the small business provisions, 325 billion to help small businesses where we know so many people are employed and our small businesses, we need to help them get through the winter, because we had a hearing in the small business committee a week ago. And what we heard was that we ve lost 25 percent of our small businesses nationwide. And if we don t act, we re going to s
Friday, the Senate passed the Conference Report for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes provisions U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.) worked to incorporate. The NDAA Conference Report provides our men and women in uniform with a three percent pay raise and secures key Indiana priorities. Senator Young, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate and Marine who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, worked to ensure the bill would strengthen our military, while keeping Americans safe amidst threats from coronavirus, the Chinese Communist Party, and the Taliban.
Senator Young issued the following statement:
“Today, the Senate continued its 60-year-steak of passing a strong and bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that will keep America secure and cares for our men and women in uniform.