News Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – After years of hard work and months of bipartisan negotiations, Congress is on the verge of passing bipartisan legislation to update a law that will help ensure high-quality child care for more children in Rhode Island and... Read More

NARRAGANSETT, RI – U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressman Jim Langevin announced today that the Narragansett Fire Department will receive a $54,726 grant from the Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) Program. The... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – In an effort to help spur economic development and smart growth in Providence and better connect neighborhoods to downtown, Rhode Island’s Congressional Delegation today announced that the City of Providence is receiving... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, released the following statement after President Obama's national address on the threat posed by the terrorist group ISIL: “Tonight, the... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – With the clock ticking and thousands of Liberians living legally in the United States facing the possibility of deportation in less than three weeks, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) is ratcheting up calls for the White House to... Read More

WARWICK, RI – As the T.F. Green Airport Improvement Program gets off the ground, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta today joined with U.S. Senator Jack Reed,... Read More

NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI – Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed and U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx toured some of Rhode Island’s key port infrastructure and met with transportation officials and marine shipping leaders at Quonset Business... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – In an effort to help local small businesses increase their exports and stay competitive in a global economy, U.S. Senator Jack Reed today announced that Rhode Island will receive a $300,000 boost from the U.S. Small Business... Read More

Providence, RI – Today U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressman David Cicilline announced a $250,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration to... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – In an effort to strengthen Rhode Island’s trauma and burn care infrastructure, U.S. Senator Jack Reed today toured the Trauma Division and Burn Center at Rhode Island Hospital and then joined with first responders,... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – U.S. Senator Jack Reed today applauded the Capital Good Fund (CGF), a non-profit financial services organization based in Providence, for winning a $125,000 Community Development Financial Institutions(CDFI) Fund Financial... Read More

PAWTUCKET, RI – In an effort to ensure more accountability, shorter wait times, and better health care for veterans at the Providence VA Medical Center, U.S. Senator Jack Reed today met with veterans, doctors, and Veterans Affairs (VA)... Read More

PROVIDENCE - U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) today addressed a conference attended by more than 75 veterans’ service professionals from colleges, universities and other agencies across the country participating in the Certificate for... Read More

EXETER, RI -- Started in 1964 as a network of Job Corps training centers to help fight poverty, and expanded over the years to places like Exeter, Rhode Island, Job Corps is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week.  The program provides... Read More

PAWTUCKET, RI – For her first official trip as head of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Chairman Jane Chu went to a place where the concept of the NEA was born: Rhode Island.  In 1965, former U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell (D-RI)... Read More

CRANSTON, RI – In an effort to fight poverty and provide critical assistance to struggling families, U.S. Senator Jack Reed today announced $680,848 in federal funding to supplement emergency food and shelter programs in Rhode Island.  The... Read More

MIDDLETOWN, RI – U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) today was presented with a national award from the Cooperative Alliance for Refuge Enhancement (C.A.R.E.) for his outstanding support of the National Wildlife Refuge System. Reed, chair of the... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressman Langevin today announced over $772,000 in federal grant funding for fire departments in Warwick and Johnston to upgrade fire safety, training, and communications... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) was joined by five leading members of Congress today in sending a letter to President Obama, urging action to deny federal contracts to inverted corporations.  Increasingly, American... Read More

CRANSTON, RI – U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today released the following statement in reaction to the President’s decision to deliver humanitarian aid to Iraqi civilians and... Read More