News Releases

PAWTUCKET, RI – Four years after Senator Reed helped pass the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA), which helps preserve, protect, and make capital improvements to national parks and other public lands to make them more accessible, the National Park... Read More

WATCH WASHINGTON, DC – In the five months since Hamas launched a horrific terrorist attack against Israel, the United States has stood by its democratic friend and ally Israel as it has carried out a difficult military campaign to defend itself and... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI -- U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Secretary Pete Buttigieg knows the importance of speed.  Just days after Rhode Island’s Governor and state transportation officials acknowledged the need to demolish and replace the... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – In an effort to improve and expand recycling service and increase composting programs, the U.S. Senate passed two bipartisan bills that seek to boost recycling and composting infrastructure in communities across the country. By... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Millions of Americans will go to the polls this November to vote for their elected leaders, including the President and members of Congress. Today, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) joined Senator Mazie K.... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – As more Rhode Islanders seek out opportunities to gain in-demand skills to enter the workforce, the Genesis Center (GC) in Providence is stepping up to expand and enhance their health care workforce training programs.  In an effort... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Tonight, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) released the following statement on President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address: “President Biden delivered a strong, spirited, uplifting State of the Union address.  “His principled... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) are teaming up with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) U.S. Representative Ro Khanna (D-NY) on a bicameral letter urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – With passage today in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congress is on track to approve a $467.5 billion ‘minibus’ appropriations package of six spending bills this week.   The first batch of appropriations bills will fund a variety... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the wake of Alabama’s State Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos created during the in vitro fertilization (IVF) process are “children” under state law, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) joined... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Months of hard work by U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) in the Senate Appropriations Committee will soon pay off for Rhode Island as Congress finally takes up the first bicameral, bipartisan package of six fiscal year 2024... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC -- After an ISIS terrorist affiliate claimed responsibility for an attack at a popular concert venue complex near Moscow that left at least 60 dead and 145 hospitalized after assailants stormed the venue with guns and explosive... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – After scores of people were killed and wounded during a chaotic aid delivery Thursday in Gaza City, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, condemned the incident and said it offers further... Read More

WEST WARWICK, RI – In honor of “March for Meals,” U.S. Senator Jack Reed today joined Meals on Wheels of Rhode Island (MOWRI) to deliver meals to local senior citizens, highlight the critical services the organization provides to homebound Rhode... Read More

QUONSET, RI – With $63 million in funding secured, the Quonset State Airport (OQU) runway rebuild is now clear for takeoff. The Rhode Island Airport Corporation today hosted federal and state officials for a ceremonial groundbreaking for the Quonset... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – As part of a broader humanitarian effort to address the critical medical needs of Gazans, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), and Senator Angus King (I-ME), a senior member of SASC... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Senate Republicans blocked a motion to pass the Access to Family Building Act (S. 3612), legislation that would establish a federal right to access in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted reproductive technology (ART)... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, after Congressional lawmakers announced agreement on a stopgap appropriations bill to avert a partial federal government shutdown that could go into effect just after midnight this Saturday, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), a... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) joined Senators Peter Welch (D-VT), Brian Schatz (D-HI), and Tina Smith (D-MN) in sending a letter to Israel’s Ambassador to the United States, Michael Herzog, on the imperative of urgently... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – In the wake of an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos are children under state law, U.S. Senator Jack Reed today backed legislation to protect every American’s right to access in-vitro fertilization (IVF).  The Alabama... Read More