News Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – In an effort to ensure that Congress continues to have an oversight role in authorizing the development of new, modified, nuclear weapons, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee, and... 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 nuclear summit with Kim Jong Un of North Korea: "It’s too... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – After the Trump Administration sought to suppress publication of a federal health study on a major water-contamination crisis, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) is leading a bipartisan effort to publicly release the study’s... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse are joining with Rhode Islanders in calling on the Trump Administration to end its policy choice of involuntarily separating children from their migrant mothers and fathers at the... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement opposing President Trump’s overture that Russia should be readmitted to the G7, making it instead the... Read More

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