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PROVIDENCE, RI – Several Rhode Island community health organizations are getting a boost from a new U.S. Department of Health and Human Services program meant to increase vaccination rates for COVID-19 in underserved populations. In an effort... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC –  Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed announced that the newly signed omnibus appropriations law includes $1 billion in supplemental appropriations for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), which provides... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – In an effort to help more Americans increase retirement savings and broaden access to workplace retirement plans, Congress approved comprehensive retirement savings reform in the FY 2023 omnibus appropriations bill, which was... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – President Joe Biden on Thursday signed a $1.7 trillion appropriations bill that will keep the federal government operating through the federal fiscal year, which ends in September 2023.  The new law provides billions of... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Joe Biden signed the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2023 (H.R. 7776) into law. The NDAA, which was co-authored by U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the Chairman of the... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – In a significant win for more family-friendly work policies, the U.S. Senate passed a pair of new measures to guarantee basic workplace accommodations for pregnant employees and new moms and expand the rights of women to pump... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. House of Representatives voted today to reauthorize the Childhood Cancer Survivorship, Treatment, Access, and Research (STAR) Act of 2022. Authored by U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), and passed earlier this week by the... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the U.S. Senate voted 68-29 to pass a long overdue, far-reaching fiscal year 2023 Omnibus Appropriations bill.  The year-long $1.7 trillion spending package averts a federal government shutdown and includes key... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, after Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelenskyy arrived in Washington, DC to meet with President Biden and deliver an address to a Joint Session of Congress, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), Chairman of the Senate Armed... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – In an effort to help thousands of children who undergo cancer treatment each year, support the pediatric cancer community, and find new cures and effective treatments, the U.S. Senate voted to reauthorize the Childhood Cancer... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – With 2023 rapidly approaching, Congressional leaders have finally reached a bipartisan agreement on a $1.7 trillion appropriations package for the remainder of fiscal year 2023 (which began October 1, 2022 and runs through... Read More

CRANSTON, RI -- The vast majority of Rhode Islanders are concerned about the impacts of climate change.  They’re also concerned about paying their monthly utility bills and fueling up at the gas pump.  And they want affordable,... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Ahead of this weekend’s World Cup final, a group of 30 U.S. lawmakers, including U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressman David Cicilline, are calling foul over FIFA’s decision to punish... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, after Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida released his nation’s new National Security Strategy and other strategic planning documents, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, can cross one more item off his to-do list after the U.S. Senate voted 83-11 to approve the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – In the wake of the collapse of FTX, the world’s second largest crypto exchange, and the loss of more than $2 trillion in supposed value among the largest cryptocurrencies this year, the Senate Banking Committee today held... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today marks the ten-year anniversary of the tragic mass-shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut that took the lives of 20 innocent first-graders and six dedicated educators who were gunned down while... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Slowly but surely, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) is advancing its way through Congress.  After winning overwhelming bipartisan approval in the U.S. House of Representatives last... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, at a special ceremony in our nation’s capital, Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm announced that on December 5 at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), which is part of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – As Congressional negotiators seek to finalize a bipartisan agreement on funding the federal government for fiscal year 2023, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Susan Collins (R-ME), who both serve on the Appropriations... Read More