WASHINGTON, July 15 -- Rep. David Cicilline, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: U.S. Representatives David Cicilline (D-RI), David B. McKinley P.E. (R-W.Va.), Ted Budd (R-NC), and David Trone (D-MD) have introduced the Telehealth Response for E-prescribing Addiction Therapy Services (TREATS) Act to support the expansion of telehealth services for substance use disorder treatment. The TREATS Act would extend telehealth flexibilities by making permanent key waivers, including the  more

WASHINGTON, July 18 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following statement on the Trump Council on Environmental Quality's rule the National Environmental Policy Act: "Score another win for polluters at the hands of their lackey, President Trump. This change means that reviews of big federal projects will ignore massive problems like climate change, even as some of our most important financial institutions warn of the threat it poses. Rhode Islanders and Americans everywhe  more

WASHINGTON, July 15 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: President Trump's changes to the federal government's core measure of the costs of climate change, the social cost of carbon, mean "current federal estimates [of climate effects] are about 7 times lower than the prior federal estimates," the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds in a report released by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and six Senate colleagues. Despite a recommendation fro  more