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U.S. Senator · New Hampshire
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Jeanne Shaheen was born on January 28, 1947, and is an American politician and former teacher. She is a member of the Democratic Party and has served as a U.S. senator from New Hampshire since 2009. She was the 78th governor of New Hampshire from 1997 to 2003.
She was born in St. Charles, Missouri, and she moved to New Hampshire in 1973. She won the governor election in 1996, and she won again in 1998 and 2000. In 2002, she ran for the U.S. Senate and lost to Republican John E. Sununu.
In 2008, she ran again and defeated Sununu in a rematch. She was sworn in to the U.S. Senate on January 3, 2009. Voters reelected her in 2014 and in 2020.
On March 12, 2025, she announced that she would not seek reelection in 2026. The article says she is married to William Shaheen, and they have three children.
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Analysts Request an Exchange Ratio for a Household
The desk read that she is married to William Shaheen and immediately requested the merger agreement. Where, our analysts asked, is the exchange ratio? Are the three children spin-offs or tracking shares? Compliance reminded everyone that this is a household, not a transaction, and the room agreed to stop. Our own mergers, for comparison, yield exactly one spin-off, and it is always a lawsuit.
Memo: Announce Your Exit Early, Then Locate a Plan
MEMO. On March 12, 2025, the record shows she announced a departure with a runway of well over a year. Recommendation: copy this. Counterpoint from Ops: our own CEO succession plan is a thumbs-up emoji in #general. Action item: replace the emoji with a date, then ask Legal whether a date may be an emoji.
Six Names, One Seat: Our Shortlist Metric Collapses
Gore's short list of potential vice presidential nominees held six names for one seat, a Names-per-Seat ratio of 6.0. Our new metric, Polite Silence Yield, counts pitches answered 'not interested' against pitches answered 'circling back.' Her entry: a stated lack of interest. Ours: zero refusals in eleven years, because we file every no as 'timing.' By this measure, the shortlist is our only pipeline that ever got shorter.
Overruled Recommendation Found; Committee Requests Sample for Study
Appraisal: one earmark was used to restore funding for a federal prison in Berlin, NH, despite a recommended cut of $276 million. A recommendation was overruled by someone who evidently read it. Our consultant has issued forty-one recommendations since 2016, all adopted unanimously and none opened. Proposed pilot: overrule one at random each year. The first draw landed on the recommendation to hire a consultant to run the draw.
Pre-Owned Inventory Form Rejects Our Retired Accelerators
Form 7 asks us to describe a store in New Hampshire that sold used jewelry, so we describe our retired accelerators the same way: velvet tray, jeweler's loupe, condition 'lightly hot-aisled.' The tray needs no chiller loop, no water permit, no feeder study. We admit it is the first resale business we have ever envied, then ask the clerk whether velvet counts as a thermal interface.
Model Drafts Its Own Subpoena; Lab Complies by Lunch
Priya: The outside reviewers want our logs. Dev: They can ask nicely. Priya: A commission got subpoena power in its investigation, because nicely would not do. Dev asks the model to format a request as one. It drafts the subpoena, seal and all, and the team delivers every log by lunch. The reviewers' real emails remain in a queue labeled 'low priority.'
Instruction Sheet: Funding Kindergartens Through the Racetrack
Step 1: Read that one school-funding answer was legalized video-gambling at state racetracks. Step 2: Do not smile. Step 3: Assign a cadre to every machine so that jackpots are paid solely in textbooks. Step 4: Report that the horses now show better attendance than the pupils. Step 5: Enroll the horses in kindergarten, award them the attendance quota, and send the gambling machines to heavy industry for rectification.
How Willing Is Willing? Open Enrollment Questions
If a plan can be kept by those 'willing to pay more,' who set the unit of willingness? Is it a dollar figure, a pay-period deduction, or the steward's patience at the enrollment table? Does the boss's willingness ever get measured against the third-shift crew's? And when the premium climbs again, will HR call it the same plan, or a newly willing one?
Hospitals Call Back Discharged Patients; My Employer Calls Me Contractor
The Medicare Transitional Care Act provides follow-up care for discharged hospital patients, so a nurse phones before a bounce-back. My discharge came with a no-reply address. Then the readmission metric arrived: I returned within a month as a contractor at my own desk, which management reports as 'successful re-engagement.' In the hospital, a return counts as failure. In our quarterly summary, it is a savings line.
Footnote: Our Postmortem Interview Quotes Only My Title Page
In 2004 Shaheen, the record says, answered questions about her prior support on live television.¹ My own turn came as a postmortem, where the panel read aloud my 2003 design note's title and nothing else. ¹ The note's second page, headed 'Assumptions,' was never read. I now print that heading in forty-point type, and the panel has asked a follow-up about the font.
Her Six Years Are Stability; My Ninety Days Are Flexibility
Voters renewed her twice, in 2014 and in 2020, and the arrangement was never labeled temporary. My contract renews in ninety-day increments, and every renewal email calls it a long-term engagement. Reversal: a six-year term is described as stability, while ninety days is described as flexibility, and only one of us has been asked to be flexible about rent.
Record date: 2026-10-25 · Party: Democrat · Term: 2021-01-03 to 2027-01-03
url: https://www.shaheen.senate.gov
phone: 202-224-2841
address: 506 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
contact form: https://www.shaheen.senate.gov/contact/contact-jeanne
