WASHINGTON, April 29 -- The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee issued the following testimony by Rep. Seth Magaziner, D-Rhode Island, at an April 18, 2023, member day hearing on transportation and infrastructure priorities: * * * Dear Chairman Graves and Ranking Member Larsen: Thank you for the opportunity to offer testimony to the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and elevate Rhode Islanders' priorities as you prepare to reauthorize federal aviation programs. The Ocea  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on May 1, 2023: It's becoming harder to find and afford child care in Rhode Island and residents are paying higher and higher percentages of their paychecks for child care. In an effort to help working families afford the rising cost of child care and strengthen America's child care infrastructure and workforce, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) are teaming up with Patty M  more

NORTH KINGSTOWN, Rhode Island, May 3 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on May 2, 2023: U.S. Senator Jack Reed today announced two new federal Small Shipyard Grants totaling over $1.4 million to upgrade equipment and boost production at J. Goodison Company and Senesco Marine, both located at Quonset Point. The federal funding comes from the U.S. Department of Transportation's 2023 Maritime Administration (MARAD) Small Shipyard Grant program, which Senator Reed  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following statement on May 4, 2023: * * * After seven former U.S. Secretaries of Defense--from both Republican and Democratic administrations--sent a letter to the leaders of the U.S. Senate urging an end to a partisan, months-long blockade of hundreds of senior U.S. military promotions, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement: "The longer this partisan strang  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 5 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on May 4, 2023: As part of his long-standing effort to help Rhode Island build more desirable, affordable rental housing units, U.S. Senator Jack Reed today announced another $3,066,413 is heading to the Ocean State courtesy of the national Housing Trust Fund (HTF), a program Reed created back in 2008. Reed, a senior member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, who also s  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on May 1, 2023: In an effort to raise student achievement in the classroom, and rebuild the educator pipeline, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI), Bob Casey (D-PA), and Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) and U.S. Representative Alma Adams (D-NC) today introduced the EDUCATORS for America Act, aimed at supporting the development and retention of effective educators. The bill would strengthen the educator workforce, address the  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following news release on May 3, 2023: U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, delivered the following opening statement at today's hearing entitled, "Who Pays the Price: The Real Cost of Fossil Fuels." Chairman Whitehouse's remarks, as prepared for delivery: Ranking Member Grassley, colleagues, welcome to our seventh Committee hearin  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement on May 1, 2023: * * * Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement after the Treasury Department announced its "best estimate" that the government will be unable to pay all its obligations as early as June 1 if the debt limit is not raised. The Congressional Budget Office similarly now projects "a s  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following news release on May 4, 2023: U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, delivered the following opening statement at today's hearing entitled, "The Default on America Act: Blackmail, Brinkmanship, and Billionaire Backroom Deals." Chairman Whitehouse's remarks, as prepared for delivery: Ranking Member Grassley, members of the c  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on May 2, 2023: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), in his capacity as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, co-led a hearing of the full Judiciary Committee entitled, "Supreme Court Ethics Reform." The hearing explored the recent torrent of media reports detailing unethical conduct by Justices of the Supreme Court and legislativ  more

WASHINGTON, May 6 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on May 4, 2023: Following yet another ProPublica report on the extraordinary undisclosed financial relationship between Justice Clarence Thomas and Republican billionaire Harlan Crow, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) today reiterated his previous calls for the Chief Justice of the United States to investigate ethical misconduct at the Supreme Court and for Congress to pass Whitehouse's legislat  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release and letter: Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the Chairman and Co-Chairman of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, today urged China to take strong and decisive action to better control the flow of precursor chemicals that Mexican cartels use to manufacture illicit fentanyl. In a letter to Xu Xueyuan, Charge d'Affaires of the Embassy of the People's Repub  more