PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Aug. 10 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on Aug. 9, 2023: After passing through Congress with no Republican support, President Joe Biden signed the historic Inflation Reduction Act into law on August 16, 2022. The Inflation Reduction Act (P.L. 117-169) is a monumental, forward-looking investment divided into three interwoven baskets: climate action; prescription drug reform; and tax fairness. Some key provisions of the law are geare  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Aug. 8 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on Aug. 7, 2023: Leading researchers at Brown University, the University of Rhode Island (URI), Rhode Island College, and Rhode Island Hospital are rethinking coastal community approaches to climate change impacts and adaptation. And now, thanks to a new $6 million federal grant, these Ocean State institutions will partner on ambitious, multidisciplinary five-year project to develop strategies   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on Aug. 10, 2023: U.S. Senator Jack Reed today announced $248,490 in federal funding for an AmeriCorps Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) project in Rhode Island. Rhode Island Hospital and its partners will utilize this federal investment to help address the opioid crisis and advance health equity for Rhode Islanders with histories of incarceration, homelessness, and/or frequent hospitalizations. Est  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on Aug. 10, 2023: Today, after President Joe Biden asked Congress to support an emergency supplemental appropriations package to provide additional aid to Ukraine and other international needs and fund disaster relief and fight fentanyl, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, signaled his support for the request and vowed to work with his Appropriations Commit  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on Aug. 11, 2023: In an effort to ensure all Rhode Islanders have access to clean, reliable drinking water, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressman Seth Magaziner today announced a $286,000 federal grant to improve access to and resilience of drinking water for residents of Block Island. This federal grant is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) office of Rural D  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on Aug. 11, 2023: In an effort to ensure all Rhode Islanders have access to clean, reliable drinking water, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressman Seth Magaziner today announced a $286,000 federal grant to improve access to and resilience of drinking water for residents of Block Island. This federal grant is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) office o  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 -- Rep. Seth Magaziner, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on Aug. 11, 2023: In an effort to ensure all Rhode Islanders have access to clean, reliable drinking water, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressman Seth Magaziner today announced a $286,000 federal grant to improve access to and resilience of drinking water for residents of Block Island. This federal grant is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) office of Ru  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on Aug. 9, 2023, and a letter: Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), and 49 Democratic lawmakers today released a bicameral letter urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to quickly finalize more robust National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone, a harmful pollutant and the main ingredient of smog. "We commend EPA's commitment t  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Aug. 11 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on Aug. 10, 2023: U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Courts Subcommittee, today released the following statement after another bombshell report published by ProPublica further exposed the breadth of undisclosed billionaire-funded gifts to Justice Thomas: "Clearly there is a lot more we still don't know about the extent to which right-wing billion  more

NEWPORT, Rhode Island, Aug. 9 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on Aug. 8, 2023: U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) today welcomed a new class of more than 500 graduate students to the U.S. Naval War College in Newport. Whitehouse underscored the security risks posed by the climate crisis and kleptocratic threats to the rule of law around the world. "Make no mistake: climate risk is a security risk, and democracy risk is a security risk," said Wh  more

NORTH PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Aug. 10 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on Aug. 9, 2023: U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse this morning joined labor officials and retirees from Rhode Island Council 94 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), AFL-CIO and senior advocates to call for passage of Whitehouse's legislation to protect the solvency of Social Security and Medicare by making the nation's highest earners cont  more