WASHINGTON, June 1 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on May 31, 2023: Today marks the official end of the COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency declarations. Going forward, the federal coronavirus response is restructured to treat the virus as an endemic threat to public health - not a pandemic - that can be treated like other respiratory illnesses and managed through federal agencies' normal authorities. "COVID exposed a lot of hard truths   more

WASHINGTON, June 3 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following statement on June 2, 2023: * * * U.S. Senator Jack Reed voted to pass the bipartisan budget agreement to take default off the table and prevent a self-inflicted recession, stating: "This is a vote to prevent default despite the bill's otherwise untenable provisions. "This legislation needs to pass because it prevents default, which would inflict irreversible economic harm on people, businesses, and communities nationw  more

CRANSTON, Rhode Island, May 31 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: On Friday, May 26, U.S. Senator Jack Reed joined the Adjutant General of the Rhode Island Army and Air National Guard, Major General Christopher P. Callahan, and retired Command Sergeant Major John McDonough to present three veterans with medals earned during their tour of duty in Iraq. The three recipients - SGT John Cervone; 1LT Russel Donahue; and SPC Mark Braden - were deployed together and  more

WASHINGTON, May 31 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following statement on May 30, 2023: * * * After the Carter Center announced that former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, 95, the wife of former President Jimmy Carter and a longtime advocate for expanded access to mental health care, has dementia, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) issued the following statement. "A dementia diagnosis can be heartbreaking, but the more people know and talk about the condition, the more we can reduce the   more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 1 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on May 31, 2023: What Cheer Flower Farm in Olneyville has $500,000 more reasons to cheer as it continues to remediate and redevelop a 2.7 acre site in Providence that used to be home to the Colonial Knife factory, but has sat vacant for years. Today, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressman Seth Magaziner announced a $500,000 Brownfields Cleanup Grant to help What Cheer F  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 1 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on May 31, 2023: What Cheer Flower Farm in Olneyville has $500,000 more reasons to cheer as it continues to remediate and redevelop a 2.7 acre site in Providence that used to be home to the Colonial Knife factory, but has sat vacant for years. Today, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressman Seth Magaziner announced a $500,000 Brownfields Cleanup Grant to help Wha  more

WASHINGTON, June 1 -- Rep. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, issued the following news release on May 30, 2023: Representative Zach Nunn (IA-03) joined with the family of Cpl. Adam Lambert of Adel, Iowa today to introduce bipartisan legislation aimed at preventing veteran suicides. The Daniel J. Harvey Jr. and Adam Lambert Improving Servicemember Transition to Reduce Veteran Suicide Act is named to honor the memory of two Marines who served in Afghanistan together, Iowa's Cpl. Adam Lambert from Adel and Rhode  more

WASHINGTON, June 2 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following news release: According to preliminary estimates by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) provided to Senator Whitehouse (D-RI), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, Republicans' $21.4 billion in cuts to the Internal Revenue Service will result in $40.4 billion in lost revenue, thus increasing the deficit by $19 billion. The IRS cuts analyzed by CBO incl  more

WASHINGTON, May 30 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following opening statement at a hearing on May 17, 2023, entitled "The Rich Get Richer, Deficits Get Bigger: How Tax Cuts for the Wealthy and Corporations Drive the National Debt": * * * Ranking Member Grassley, members of the committee, distinguished witnesses, and guests: This morning, we meet under House Republicans' threat of default as Speaker McCarthy holds our economy host  more