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Jeanne Shaheen

DemocratJeanne Shaheen

U.S. Senator · New Hampshire

DemocratFederal

U.S. Senator from New Hampshire

11 tracked promises, 4 rated

New Hampshire

New Hampshire

Represents New Hampshire statewide

85/100
Trust rating
Strongly keeps promises
85
0 · Broken50 · Mixed100 · Kept
A transparent rescale of the Integrity Score (+70) to 0–100, aggregated from 4 rated promises. Never an opaque single score. Provisional — based on 3 rated promises they could act on; a settled rating needs at least 5.
How this is calculated →

How they won their seat

Jeanne Shaheen won the 2020 U.S. Senate election in New Hampshire with 56.6% of the vote (450,778 votes).

56.6%
Win share
450,778
Votes for winner
795,914
Total cast
  • Jeanne Shaheen · Democrat56.6%
  • Corky Messner · Republican41%
  • Justin O'Donnell · Libertarian2.3%
  • 1 Other Candidate0.1%

Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.

Inferred legislative agendas

Jeanne Shaheen's record shows a focus on health care, particularly in relation to diabetes and reproductive rights, as evidenced by her sponsorship of the INSULIN Act and the Women's Health Protection Act. Additionally, her work on foreign policy includes several bills addressing issues related to Russia, Ukraine, and international human rights. Focus areas (from the record): Health Care · Reproductive Rights · Foreign Policy · Child Care · Human Rights Alignment with declared positions: Mixed. Shaheen's sponsored bills align with her declared positions on health care and foreign policy, such as her commitment to the INSULIN Act and the BLOCK PUTIN Act. What this can't tell you: The effectiveness of her sponsored bills in achieving their intended goals; The impact of her campaign finance sources on her legislative priorities; Any unlogged work or informal efforts that may influence her political activity. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Jeanne Shaheen has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.

Showing 2025. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.

Activity in office

What Jeanne Shaheen has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.

Roll-call data last updated September 7, 2026 · source: Voteview.

Monthly voting activity

  • Yea
  • Nay
  • Total
0295887116VotesJan '25: 20 YeaJan '25: 8 NayJan '25Feb '25: 28 YeaFeb '25: 42 NayFeb '25Mar '25: 23 YeaMar '25: 35 NayMar '25Apr '25: 36 YeaApr '25: 30 NayApr '25May '25: 12 YeaMay '25: 41 NayMay '25Jun '25: 30 YeaJun '25: 35 NayJun '25Jul '25: 40 YeaJul '25: 69 NayJul '25Aug '25: 15 YeaAug '25: 17 NayAug '25Sep '25: 11 YeaSep '25: 25 NaySep '25Oct '25: 19 YeaOct '25: 46 NayOct '25Nov '25: 13 YeaNov '25: 9 NayNov '25Dec '25: 16 YeaDec '25: 16 NayDec '25Jan '25: 28 totalFeb '25: 70 totalMar '25: 58 totalApr '25: 71 totalMay '25: 54 totalJun '25: 72 totalJul '25: 114 totalAug '25: 32 totalSep '25: 36 totalOct '25: 66 totalNov '25: 22 totalDec '25: 36 total
Measures voted on:476 passed169 failed14 procedural/other

Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.

Vote attendance

96.5%
attendance
636 of 659 roll calls23 missed
Monthly participation rate
025507510088.9%Jan 25Mar 25May 25Jul 25Sep 25Nov 25Dec 25

Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.

Bills sponsored over time

58bills sponsored
4 passed a chamber54 pending
0255075100Bills2025: 4 passed a chamber, 54 pending2025: 4 passed a chamber, 54 pending582025

Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.

Independence

15%
Votes against own party
93 of 635 recent votes

How often they break with their party’s majority — neither good nor bad, just the record.

Most recent roll-call votes on file. Source: Voteview.

Bill success rate

0%
0 of 58 sponsored bills became law
4 passed a chamber54 pending

Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$173K
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$250K$500K$750K$1M2026: raised $173K2026: spent $757K20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $11K (7%)7%Large individual (itemized): $90K (58%)58%PAC / committee: $55K (35%)35%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$11K7%
  • Large individual (itemized)$90K58%
  • PAC / committee$55K35%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Source: Congress.gov.

Integrity

Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown

+70 · based on 4 rated promises

  • No opportunity 1
  • Championed 2
  • Fully Kept 1

Teal segments are promises kept; amber and stone segments are promises worked against. The signed score weights each rated promise by significance and evidence confidence. Promise-keeping is shown separately from popularity, finance, disclosure, and stated positions. Methodology is open.

Integrity over time

In office since Jan 2015 · 4 rated promises

The line steps at each recorded assessment and holds between them; it ends on the current published score.

−100 worked against0+100 kept
Integrity Score by assessment date. Score ranges from −100 (worked against) to +100 (kept).
DateIntegrity Score
Jul 2026
Jul 202662
Jul 202667
Jul 202670
Jan 202770 (current, held from last rating)

Promise status over time

How the tracked promise record has evolved.

4 tracked
  • Kept3
  • Against0
  • No opportunity1
  • In progress0
01234Jul 2026Jul 2026

Replayed from this official’s sourced assessment history — the bands step only when an assessment is recorded or changed. Based on the most recent roll-call votes on file and the tracked promise assessments; never interpolated.

Not yet scoredNot yet rated 7— tracked, but not counted toward Integrity

Topic coverage

11 promises across 9 topics

What this record covers — the number of tracked promises per topic. This is coverage, not a verdict; the kept/against shading within each bar mirrors the Integrity breakdown above.

  • Reproductive Rights3
  • Child Care / Economy1
  • Foreign Policy / Russia1
  • Foreign Policy / Russia Sanctions1
  • Foreign Policy / Ukraine1
  • Government Accountability1
  • Health Care / Prescription Drug Costs1
  • Public Service / Term Commitment1
  • Reproductive Rights / Military1
Kept Worked against No opportunity / not yet scored

Evidence & significance

Evidence quality

Strongest source cited per promise.

  • Primary (official record)11100%

Significance mix

How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).

10
22
35
44
50

Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.

Tracked promises

11 tracked promises

Championedhigh confidence

Shaheen committed to using every available means to protect abortion and reproductive health care access, saying she is prepared to use every tool possible so decisions on family remain with women.

Reproductive RightsSpecific · measurablePromised Jun 2023
SourcesU.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (Senate.gov)· archivedU.S. Senate Roll Call Votes, 118th Congress· archivedRoll CallOffice of U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen· archivedU.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (Senate.gov)· archived
Championedhigh confidence

Shaheen said she is leading legislation to codify the Pentagon's policy providing protected leave for abortion and reproductive health care to service members and military families, pledging to do everything she can to protect their health and safety.

Reproductive Rights / MilitaryPromised May 2023
SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen· archivedCongress.gov, Library of Congress· archivedOffice of U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (senate.gov)· archivedOffice of U.S. Senator Ed Markey (senate.gov)· archived
Fully Kepthigh confidence

In 2019, facing state efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade, Shaheen vowed to fight the abortion restrictions with everything she and her colleagues had.

Reproductive RightsPromised May 2019
SourcesU.S. Senate Roll Call Votes, 117th Congress· archivedOffice of U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen· archivedU.S. Senate Democratic Leadership· archivedOffice of U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen· archived
No opportunityhigh confidence

Shaheen pledged to refuse her Senate pay in the event of a government shutdown until Congress resolved the budget impasse.

Government AccountabilityPromised Apr 2011
SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen· archivedThe Washington PostCBS News
Not yet rated

As co-chair of the Senate Diabetes Caucus, Shaheen committed to her bipartisan INSULIN Act, which she said would finally lower the cost of insulin for diabetic patients regardless of insurance status.

Health Care / Prescription Drug CostsSpecific · measurablePromised Mar 2026
SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen· archived
Not yet rated

Shaheen introduced the bipartisan Supporting Ukraine Act of 2025, saying the bill would strengthen the President's negotiating hand with Putin and put an end to the war.

Foreign Policy / UkraineSpecific · measurablePromised Jul 2025
SourcesU.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (Democrats)· archived
Not yet rated

Shaheen committed to helping reintroduce the Women's Health Protection Act to enshrine the protections of Roe v. Wade into federal law.

Reproductive RightsSpecific · measurablePromised Jun 2025
SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen· archived
Not yet rated

Shaheen co-sponsored legislation to sanction purchasers of Russian oil and gas, saying it would level tough new sanctions on Russia and choke off export markets funding its war.

Foreign Policy / Russia SanctionsPromised Jul 2026
SourcesU.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (Democrats)· archived
Not yet rated

Shaheen introduced the bipartisan BLOCK PUTIN Act, saying it would hold senior Hungarian government officials accountable for obstructing European assistance to Ukraine and enabling reliance on Russian energy.

Foreign Policy / RussiaPromised Mar 2026
SourcesU.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (Democrats)· archived
Not yet rated

Shaheen joined a bipartisan, bicameral proposal that she said would lower child care costs, increase wages for the child care workforce, and help providers stay open.

Child Care / EconomyPromised Mar 2025
SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen· archived
Not yet rated

In announcing she would not seek reelection in 2026, Shaheen committed to keep working every day through the remainder of her term for New Hampshire and the country.

Public Service / Term CommitmentPromised Mar 2025
SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen· archived

Voting record

Total votes
890
Yea
377
Nay
477
Present
0
Not voting
36

Full voting record

890 votes
  • PN1078Nay
  • PN1078Nay
  • PN73011Nay
  • PN73011Nay
  • PN932Nay
  • PN932Nay
120 of 890
Page 1 / 45

Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Positions on record

11 positions on record

The record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.

  • Foreign Policy / Russia SanctionsStated position

    Shaheen co-sponsored legislation to sanction purchasers of Russian oil and gas, saying it would level tough new sanctions on Russia and choke off export markets funding its war.

    SourcesU.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (Democrats)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Foreign Policy / RussiaStated position

    Shaheen introduced the bipartisan BLOCK PUTIN Act, saying it would hold senior Hungarian government officials accountable for obstructing European assistance to Ukraine and enabling reliance on Russian energy.

    SourcesU.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (Democrats)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Health Care / Prescription Drug CostsStated position

    As co-chair of the Senate Diabetes Caucus, Shaheen committed to her bipartisan INSULIN Act, which she said would finally lower the cost of insulin for diabetic patients regardless of insurance status.

    SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen· archived
    View position & sources
  • Foreign Policy / UkraineStated position

    Shaheen introduced the bipartisan Supporting Ukraine Act of 2025, saying the bill would strengthen the President's negotiating hand with Putin and put an end to the war.

    SourcesU.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (Democrats)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Public Service / Term CommitmentStated position

    In announcing she would not seek reelection in 2026, Shaheen committed to keep working every day through the remainder of her term for New Hampshire and the country.

    SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen· archived
    View position & sources
  • Child Care / EconomyStated position

    Shaheen joined a bipartisan, bicameral proposal that she said would lower child care costs, increase wages for the child care workforce, and help providers stay open.

    SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen· archived
    View position & sources
  • Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote

    On record voting NAY on Paul Amendment No. 1829 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment whose stated purpose was to append the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act to the bill. The amendment was rejected 31 to 61, a three-fifths majority being required.

    SourcesSenate Roll Call Vote 144, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On the Amendment, Paul Amdt. No. 1829 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Amendment Rejected, 31 yeas to 61 nays with a three-fifths majority required, April 19, 2024.
    View position & sources
  • Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote

    On record voting NAY on Durbin Amendment No. 1841, as modified, to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment whose stated purpose was to prohibit warrantless access to the communications and other information of United States persons. The amendment was rejected 42 to 50.

    SourcesSenate Roll Call Vote 148, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On the Amendment, Durbin Amdt. No. 1841 as Modified to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Amendment Rejected, 42 yeas to 50 nays, April 19, 2024.
    View position & sources
  • Reproductive RightsStated position

    Shaheen committed to helping reintroduce the Women's Health Protection Act to enshrine the protections of Roe v. Wade into federal law.

    SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen· archived
    View position & sources
  • Reproductive Rights / MilitaryStated position

    Shaheen said she is leading legislation to codify the Pentagon's policy providing protected leave for abortion and reproductive health care to service members and military families, pledging to do everything she can to protect their health and safety.

    SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen· archived
    View position & sources
  • Government AccountabilityStated position

    Shaheen pledged to refuse her Senate pay in the event of a government shutdown until Congress resolved the budget impasse.

    SourcesOffice of U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen· archived
    View position & sources
Disclosure
No undisclosed priorities on record

Disclosure

A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.

No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.

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