WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Rep. Gabe Amo, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Amo Shares Rhode Islander's Story to Defend Medicaid from Planned Republican Cuts WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Gabe Amo (RI-01), a member of the House Budget Committee, once again slammed the latest Republican budget resolution, which threatens devastating cuts to critical programs. In his remarks, Amo spoke about the story of Al, a 74-year-old resident of East Providence who relies on Medica  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Rep. Gabe Amo, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Amo Statement on the SAVE Act WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Gabe Amo (RI-01) released the following statement after voting against the SAVE Act -- a partisan Republican bill that would make it harder to vote for American veterans serving abroad, married American citizens who have changed their last name, and Americans who do not have a passport. "The SAVE Act proposed by House Republicans i  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on April 9, 2025: * * * Congressional Energy and Environment Lawmakers Lead Bicameral Letter Signed by 180 Members of Congress to Oppose EPA's Wholesale Assault on Environmental and Public Health Protections Washington, D.C. - Today, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Publ  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Rep. Seth Magaziner, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Homeland Security Ranking Members Magaziner, Thompson Write DHS & FBI on Trump Administration Weakening Domestic Terrorism Programs WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Rep. Seth Magaziner (RI-02), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, joined Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (MS-02), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Rep. Seth Magaziner, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Magaziner Calls for Transparency on Congressional Stock Trading Surrounding Trump's Tariff Announcement, Demands Ban be Considered by House WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, U.S. Representatives Seth Magaziner (RI-02), Joe Neguse (CO-02), Mike Levin (CA-49), Steven Horsford (NV-04), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), and David Min (CA-47) wrote a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson requesting that he call  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Rep. Seth Magaziner, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Magaziner Co-Leads Bipartisan Bill to Combat Veteran Suicide, Improve Mental Health Support WASHINGTON, DC -- Today U.S. Representatives Seth Magaziner (RI-02) and Zach Nunn (IA-03) introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at preventing veteran suicide by strengthening mental health support for servicemembers transitioning to civilian life. The D aniel J. Harvey and Adam Lambert Improving Se  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Rep. Seth Magaziner, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Magaziner Statement on Roof Collapse at Nightclub in Santo Domingo "I am deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life caused by the roof collapse at the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo, and am hurting with the entire Dominican-American community in Rhode Island. Among the victims was Rhode Island restaurant owner, Fray Luis Rosario, who made significant contributions to Providence through   more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Rep. Seth Magaziner, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Magaziner's Bill to Combat Transnational Repression Passes Homeland Security Committee WASHINGTON, DC -- The House Homeland Security Committee today passed U.S. Representative Seth Magaziner's (RI-02) Strengthening State and Local Efforts to Combat Transnational Repression Act, bipartisan legislation to crack down on coercive tactics used by repressive foreign governments to silence political   more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * New England Senators Demand Answers on Reports White House May Eliminate Regional FEMA Office WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) joined all ten of their Senate colleagues representing New England states in seeking answers about reports that the Trump Administration is considering eliminating certain Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) regiona  more

WASHINGTON, April 7 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Reed & Community Action Leaders Discuss Trump Administration Cuts Targeting Vulnerable RIers WARWICK, RI - Following a roundtable discussion with the leadership of Rhode Island's seven community action programs (CAPs), U.S. Senator Jack Reed today addressed the Trump Administration's mass-layoffs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and other cuts that will impact Rhode Island   more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Reed & Hagerty Renew Push to Reign in Abusive Mortgage "Trigger Leads" & Cut Down on Unwanted Spam Calls, Texts and Emails WASHINGTON, DC - In an effort to give prospective homebuyers more control over their personal information, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Bill Hagerty (R-TN) reintroduced the Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act to dramatically reduce spam calls, texts, and emails from irresp  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Reed & Whitehouse Back Bill to Cut Taxes for Working Americans WASHINGTON, DC - In an effort to target tax relief to workers, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) today joined Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and 42 of their Senate colleagues in introducing the Tax Cut for Workers Act to give millions of working Americans a much-needed tax break. In stark contrast t  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Reed & Whitehouse Seek Answers & Return of Maryland Father Wrongfully Deported to El Salvador WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Justice admitted the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia -- a father who was living legally in the United States under protected status -- was an "administrative error." Mr. Garcia, 29, who fled El Salavador in 2006 and migrated to the U.S. in 2011, is married with a  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Reed & Whitehouse Seek to Raise Federal Minimum Wage to $17 by 2030 WASHINGTON, DC - The last time the federal minimum wage was raised it was July of 2009 - Barack Obama had just been elected president, iPads hadn't come out yet, and the world was experiencing a global recession. Since then, corporate profits have risen as has the costs of goods, but the federal minimum wage -- which is supposed to  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Reed & Young Introduce Bipartisan Adult Education WORKS Act WASHINGTON, DC - The latest results for U.S. adults on the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) are sobering. Between 2017 and 2023 literacy and numeracy skills sank, with the percentage of adults at the lowest performance levels increasing from 19 to 28 percent in literacy and from 29 to 34 percent in nu  more

WASHINGTON, April 7 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Reed Leads Calls for Hearings on Trump's Tariff Chaos & Misuse of Executive Power WASHINGTON, DC - As President Donald Trump's tariff taxes continue to increase prices on American consumers and businesses, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), a leading member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, joined U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Ranking Member of the committee, and ever  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Reed Seeks to Unfreeze $80 Million to Help RIers Lower Their Home Energy Bills PROVIDENCE, RI - The Trump Administration is withholding tens of millions of dollars for clean energy and energy efficiency upgrades across Rhode Island that Congress approved under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (P.L. 117-58) and the Inflation Reduction Act (P.L. 117-169). U.S. Senator Jack Reed supported the crea  more

WASHINGTON, April 7 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Reed Statement on Trump Dismissal of U.S. NATO Representative Vice Admiral Chatfield WASHINGTON, DC - Today, President Trump dismissed Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield, the U.S. Military Representative to NATO, without explanation. U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement: "President Trump's unjustified dismissal of   more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Rep. Gabe Amo, D-Rhode Island, issued the following floor remarks on April 9, 2025 (In this document, the reference to Mr. Speaker refers to the presiding officer of the House at the time of the speech): * * * Mr. Speaker, across the country, Head Start lives up to its name. It provides quality early childhood education so that working-class families can get ahead. However, right now, Head Start is under attack from Donald Trump and Republicans in this Chamber. They f  more

WASHINGTON, April 9 -- Rep. Seth Magaziner, D-Rhode Island, issued the following statement, which was published in the Congressional Record on April 8, 2025: * * * Mr. Speaker, I rise today for the more than 120,000 people in my district who count on Social Security, a sacred promise earned through decades of hard work. Social Security is the bedrock of retirement for the middle class. It means dignity after a lifetime of work. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are firing the staff that run the Soc  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on April 9, 2025: * * * Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works Democrats, SEEC, House Energy & Commerce Democrats Lead Colleagues in Sounding Alarm on EPA's Wholesale Assault on Environmental Protections Washington, D.C. - Today, environmental champions in the House and Senate--including Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Rank  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * To Help More American Households Save Energy, U.S. Senators Renew Bipartisan Effort to Boost Weatherization Aid WASHINGTON, DC - In an effort to make more homes energy efficient and help residents save on their utility bills, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI), Susan Collins (R-ME), Chris Coons (D-DE) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) teamed up to re-introduce the Weatherization Assistance Program Improvement  more

WASHINGTON, April 7 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * U.S. Adversaries Trying to Exploit Trump's Mass-Firings to Recruit Ousted Gov't Employees as Spies WASHINGTON, DC - With the Trump Administration arbitrarily laying off tens of thousands of skilled government workers, many with security clearances and expertise in critical fields, foreign government intelligence agencies are ratcheting up efforts to increase spies. According to intelligence recen  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Warner, Reed, Coons Lead National Security Senators in Sounding Alarm Over Recent Firings at NSA WASHINGTON, DC - Last week, without cause or justification, President Donald Trump fired the top American cybersecurity official responsible for countering foreign cyber threats, just as the U.S. is confronting the most complex, sophisticated, and sustained attacks on U.S. cyber infrastructure our natio  more

WASHINGTON, April 10 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Whitehouse Slams Trump's Executive Order as Cost-Raising Giveaway to Big Oil, Assault on State Sovereignty Washington, D.C.--Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), issued the following statement about President Trump's latest Executive Order, "Prote  more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release on April 11, 2025: * * * Whitehouse, Fetterman Introduce Clean Cloud Act to Create Emissions Standard for AI, Cryptomining Facilities Surging power demand from cryptomining facilities and AI data centers is raising rates for consumers and increasing fossil fuel consumption New emissions standard would incentivize robust invest  more