For Shaheen, the decision was less about political pressure than time. By the end of my term, I will have served in the Senate for 18 years, three terms. I will have been in elective office for 30 years. and I'm going to turn 80 the same month I leave office age. An issue her party spent the last presidential election trying to ignore, made Shaheen say yes to something Washington can't give her. (03:04–03:08)
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Asserts that Jeanne Shaheen will have been in elective office for 30 years.
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