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Hello, and welcome back to The Best & The Brightest, foreign policy and national security edition. This week, I talked to Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat of New Hampshire and a core staple of the foreign policy universe. She scored a big coup on the Senate floor last Wednesday with the confirmation of Dr. Geeta Rao Gupta as the head of the State Department’s Office of Global Women’s Issues, and wanted to talk. But first…
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This week, I talked to Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Democrat of New Hampshire and a core staple of the foreign policy universe. She scored a big coup on the Senate floor last Wednesday with the confirmation of Dr. Geeta Rao Gupta as the head of the State Department’s Office of Global Women’s Issues, and wanted to talk. But first…

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On Wednesday, New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen finally accomplished what she had been trying to do for 18 months: she confirmed the appointment of Dr. Geeta Rao Gupta, who was nominated by Joe Biden to lead the State Department’s Office of Global Women’s Issues all the way back in November of 2021. The office, which is supposed to make sure that the empowerment of women and girls around the world is part of U.S. foreign policy, was first headed by Melanne Verveer, a veteran member of the Clinton White House and...
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