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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously voted 31-0 to approve the fiscal year 2019 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD) Appropriations bill, providing a total of... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, in the Oval Office, President Trump signed into law The Childhood Cancer Survivorship, Treatment, Access, and Research (STAR) Act (S. 292), which was authored by U.S. Senator Jack Reed. Reed’s bipartisan bill,... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – After President Trump failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), his Administration tried to undermine it: repealing the individual mandate; ending cost-sharing reduction payments; expanding junk insurance plans; and... Read More

CRANSTON, RI – Nearly three-quarters of a century ago, Warwick resident Frank Amalfetano was helping Allied forces get ashore during the D-Day invasion of Normandy, France.  Today, during a special ceremony surrounded by family and... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Last night, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted 25-2 to approve the John S. McCain III National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2019.  The NDAA authorizes funding to equip, supply, and train our... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement in reaction to President Trump’s decision to pull out of the planned June 12th nuclear summit with... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – After successfully opposing the Trump Administration’s draconian cuts to the Public Housing Capital Fund and instead delivering a $6.3 million increase for Rhode Island’s allocation for the current fiscal year, U.S.... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – In an effort to protect national security and send a strong, bipartisan rebuke of the Trump Administration’s reported framework to lift restrictions on Chinese telecommunications company ZTE, the Senate Banking Committee... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Congress can’t seem to agree on much these days, but today the U.S. House of Representatives came together to pass a bill authored by U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) that will advance pediatric cancer research and improve... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Jack Reed today announced that two Rhode Island small businesses have won federal grants to help accelerate clean energy breakthroughs. Aquanis, Inc. of East Greenwich, and Prisere LLC, of Warwick, will each receive... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Rhode Island’s Congressional delegation today announced that the state is scheduled to receive $7,380,473 in federal funding to help emergency responders and their partners prepare for and react to a range of crises and... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – The push to advance pediatric cancer research and improve outcomes for kids with cancer is getting a major boost from Rhode Islanders who know firsthand the value of childhood cancer research and treatment. U.S. Senator Jack... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) have joined Senators Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Rob Portman (R-OH) and a bipartisan group of 39 U.S. Senators urging President Donald Trump to appoint a... Read More

Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Jack Reed (D-RI), the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing, Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD), held an... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC –  In a major move on behalf of consumers and free speech, the U.S. Senate today passed a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution overturning the Trump Administration’s repeal of net neutrality rules to preserve a... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and an ex officio member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, released the following statement today on the nomination of Gina... Read More

WARWICK, RI – In an effort to recognize and encourage artistic talent across high schools in Rhode Island, U.S. Senator Jack Reed today announced the winners of his 2018 High School Arts Competition.  Cosponsored by the RI... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed joined a group of over 30 U.S. Senators calling on the Trump Administration to put American national security and jobs ahead of China. The Senators wrote a letter to the Administration in response... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – In an effort to better protect the health and safety of firefighters, the U.S. Senate passed legislation backed by U.S. Senator Jack Reed establishing a national registry to collect occupational information and data to better... Read More

Thank you, Senator Inhofe.  I would like to join you in welcoming our nominees and thank them for their willingness to serve in positions of great responsibility.  I would also like to thank your family members, many of whom are here today,... Read More