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WASHINGTON A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report requested by Senators Paul Sarbanes (D-MD), Ranking member of the Senate Banking and Housing Committee, and Jack Reed (D-RI), Ranking member of the Senate Subcommittee on Housing, found that... Read More

WASHINGTON Congress is set to approve $13.25 million in requests by Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) for economic development initiatives and infrastructure improvements in Rhode Island. The funding, part of the Transportation, Treasury and Housing and Urban... Read More

WASHINGTON Congress is set to approve $10,620,000 for Naval Station Newport as part of the Military Construction Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2006. This funding, requested by Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), will be used to replace a vehicle bridge... Read More

WASHINGTON- Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), a member of the Senate Health Committee, cosponsored the bill introduced by Senator Michael Enzi (R-WY).The bipartisan Wired for Health Care Quality Act, will lay the foundation for technology and information... Read More

WASHINGTON- U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) today introduced legislation to name the Post Office at 57 Rolfe Square in Cranston, Rhode Island the Holly A. Charette Post Office in honor of United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal Holly Charette, a... Read More

WASHINGTONU.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) secured $1 million to support the establishment of a Center for Aquaculture Development (CAD) at Roger Williams University (RWU) in Bristol. The CAD will be established within the Universitys Center for... Read More

Congress has given final approval to a proposal by Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) to provide $3 million to establish a cooperative research program to study the causes of lobster shell disease and the decline in the lobsters in New England waters.Lobsters... Read More

WASHINGTON-- Congress is set to give final approval for several requests totaling $5,409,000 secured by Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) for funding in Rhode Island as part of the Fiscal Year (FY) Energy and Water Appropriations bill and $5,750,000 in the... Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congress is set to give final approval for several requests totaling $893,000 secured by Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) for funding in Rhode Island as part of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2006 Agriculture Appropriations Conference Report. The... Read More

WASHINGTON In one of the largest give-aways to a single special interest, the United States House of Representatives today approved a bill to give gun manufacturers and dealers unprecedented immunity from lawsuits.Responding to pressure from the gun... Read More

Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, stated, It appears that Saturdays constitutional referendum will be successful and the constitution will be approved. But most observers, and the military commanders on the... Read More

WASHINGTON-- Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) today criticized the Iraqi transitional National Assembly for its decision to change the rules to allow a proposed constitution to fail in a scheduled national referendum only if two-thirds of all registered... Read More

WASHINGTON -- Originally created as a program to serve as an emergency federal response to the crisis of homelessness, the McKinney-Vento Act instead has become a safety net for low-income households who are inadequately served by mainstream programs... Read More

On Saturday, October 15, 2005 from 9:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M. students are invited to meet with United States Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) and representatives from the U.S. Military, Naval, Air Force, Merchant Marine and Coast... Read More

WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court today stated that it will review a campaign financing case examining whether state and local governments can limit candidate spending.U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), who filed an Amicus Brief with the Supreme Court on... Read More

WASHINGTON - Senator Jack Reed stated, The United States military is well run, disciplined and very effective at carrying out its mission, but it cannot become the Bush Administrations answer to all problems. If the State Department does not have the... Read More

PROVIDENCE - The U.S. Department of Justice notified U.S. Senator Jack Reed today that $400,000 in federal funding Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) secured for the Rhode Island Family Treatment Drug Court has been sent to the Court. Reed secured the funding... Read More

PROVIDENCE - The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) notified U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) that the Providence Police Department will receive $5,608,815 in federal funding to develop interoperable... Read More

WASHINGTON Four years after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, local emergency officials and first responders are still unable to reliably communicate with one another during disasters. And the failure to improve communications equipment... Read More

WASHINGTON The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is sending the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) $ 2,535,741 that U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) secured for new buses and security improvement in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 Omnibus... Read More