News Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – After the Trump Administration terminated America’s extreme weather database that has tracked the cost of disasters since 1980, a group of leading U.S. Senators is fighting back. U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Sheldon Whitehouse... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – With Rhode Island health insurance premiums slated to increase by over 20 percent in many cases in the coming year and approximately 175,000 Rhode Islanders who are covered by commercial insurance plans slated to see their premiums... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today on the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Jack Reed, a leading member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, urged his Senate colleagues to vote against Dr. Stephen Miran’s nomination to be a Member of the Federal... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, after President Trump ordered the U.S. military to attack and destroy a boat in Caribbean for the second time this month, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – In an effort to raise awareness about the importance of literacy, boost literacy support programs, and encourage more Americans of all ages to read, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) are teaming up on a... Read More

EAST PROVIDENCE, RI – In an effort to help Bradley Hospital provide cutting-edge research and state-of-the-art facilities to support children dealing with mental health disorders, Rhode Island’s Congressional Delegation today announced a new... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, after Charlie Kirk, co-founder of a young conservatives organization, was shot at an event at Utah Valley University, U.S. Senator Jack Reed condemned the assassination attempt, stating: “I strongly condemn this reprehensible... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Nearly one week after President Trump hosted Polish President Karol Nawrocki at the White House, Poland’s military and NATO allies were forced to scramble air defenses in Poland overnight and shut down multiple airports after Russian... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, delivered a speech on the Senate floor warning that President Trump’s unauthorized military strike in the Caribbean and unilateral order... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – In an effort to erode the independence of the Federal Reserve and push the nation’s central bank to prioritize his own political interests, President Trump is seeking to install his White House economic advisor, Stephen Miran, to a... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Trump signed into law U.S. Senator Jack Reed’s (D-RI) legislation to ban abusive “trigger leads,” a practice where credit bureaus sell mortgage applicants’ data without consent, leading to a flood of unwanted calls,... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Jack Reed today issued the following statement on the terrible August jobs report: “Nobody wants to see these kinds of dismal job numbers. But the way to improve them isn’t to deny them, fake them, fire the statistician,... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse today convened a group of health care professionals, service providers, and community advocates at Providence Community Health Centers’ (PCHC) Prairie Avenue Health Center to discuss how... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC -- President Donald Trump is once again seeking to override Congress on bipartisan spending laws and is putting the country on a path to a federal government shutdown later this fall.   In an attempted end-run around Congress’ funding... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC -- Under the anti-vaccine views of U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., infectious diseases like measles that were once largely eliminated in the U.S. are now spreading rampantly throughout American... Read More

CRANSTON, RI – U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and U.S. Representative Gabe Amo (D-RI), the Vice Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, traveled to Liberia and Ghana this week... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) today issued the following statement on the passing of Judge Frank Caprio: “Frank Caprio uplifted many lives through his extensive career dedicated to service, including nearly four decades with the... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressmen Seth Magaziner and Gabe Amo today issued the following joint statement following the ratification of a labor agreement struck between Butler Hospital and SEIU 1199NE,... Read More

WARWICK, RI – Today, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, along with U.S. Representatives Seth Magaziner (RI-02) and Gabe Amo (RI-01), issued the following statement in response to a Trump Administration order stopping all activities of... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, after President Donald Trump made a series of false claims about U.S. elections, pledged to “lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS” and voting machines, and inaccurately asserted that states must run elections in the... Read More