WASHINGTON, July 25 -- Rep. Jim Langevin, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) and Rep. Jim Langevin (RI-02) introduced a resolution celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA, which had passed the House and Senate with overwhelmingly bipartisan votes, was signed into law on July 26, 1990 by President George H.W. Bush. This landmark law required reasonable accommodation for those with dis  more

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Rep. David Cicilline, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on July 21: The U.S. House passed a Defense spending bill that includes three provisions first proposed by U.S. Congressman David N. Cicilline (RI-01) to expand economic opportunity for working Rhode Islanders. "Once we defeat this pandemic, we need to make sure that every Rhode Islander has a chance to get ahead," said Cicilline. "I'm pleased that the House included these measures to strengthen Rhod  more

PAWTUCKET, Rhode Island, July 20 -- Rep. David Cicilline, D-Rhode Island, issued the following statement on the death of Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia: "Over the course of his 80 years of life, on a journey that took him from a sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, John Lewis never stopped fighting to extend the blessings of liberty to all Americans. "Whether he was leading us on another march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, sitting in against gun violence on the floor of the U.S. House,  more

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Rep. David Cicilline, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: U.S. Congressman David N. Cicilline (RI-01) introduced the Maintaining Important Distance During Lengthy Epidemics (MIDDLE) Act along with Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) to prohibit airlines from filling adjacent seats in passenger aircraft for the duration of the pandemic and would require that passengers and crewmembers wear masks when boarding. "As air travel begins to recover in light of the COVID-  more

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- Rep. David Cicilline, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, along with Congressmen Jim Langevin and David Cicilline, announced that $71.3 million in funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act has been distributed to five Rhode Island hospitals to offset the costs of caring for coronavirus patients. The funding was awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).  more

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: Congressman Joe Kennedy III applauded the passage of his legislation to create a Southern New England Regional Commission as part of the Department of Defense spending bill. Introduced with Congressman David Cicilline, the legislation will establish a federal regional commission in southeastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island and surrounding counties in Connecticut allowing jurisdictions at differ  more

WASHINGTON, July 22 -- Rep. Jim Langevin, D-Rhode Island, issued the following statement: Congressman Jim Langevin (D-RI), a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee and Chairman of the Committee's Subcommittee on Intelligence and Emerging Threats and Capabilities, released the following statement after voting in favor of H.R. 6395, the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, which passed the House by a vote of 295-125 and authorizes $732   more

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- Rep. Jim Langevin, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: Congressman Jim Langevin (D-RI) voted in favor of H.R. 1957, the Great American Outdoors Act, which ensures the Land and Water Conservation Fund will be able to access $900 million annually and creates the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund, which will provide funding for national parks and public lands in communities across the nation. The bill passed the House by a vote of 310-107.  more

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- Rep. Jim Langevin, D-Rhode Island, issued the following statement on the death of Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia: "John Lewis was an icon of the Civil Rights Movement and an American hero whose passionate advocacy to ensure justice and equality for all helped change the course of our history. He has forever left a mark on our nation as a man of and for the people who was not afraid to 'get into good trouble, necessary trouble,' to realize transformational change. "A man fro  more

WASHINGTON, July 25 -- Rep. Jim Langevin, D-Rhode Island, issued the following statement on July 24: Congressman Jim Langevin (D-RI) voted in favor of H.R. 7608, a $259.5 billion appropriations package that comprises the Fiscal Year 2021 State-Foreign Operations, Agriculture, Interior-Environment, and Military Construction-Veterans Affairs appropriations bills. The funding package passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 224-189. * * * "With an eye towards the future and with a focus   more

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- Rep. Jim Langevin, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, along with Congressmen Jim Langevin and David Cicilline, announced that $71.3 million in funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act has been distributed to five Rhode Island hospitals to offset the costs of caring for coronavirus patients. The funding was awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). "  more

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Rep. Jim Langevin, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: Cyberspace Solarium Commissioners Congressmen Jim Langevin (D-RI) and Mike Gallagher (R-WI) applauded a slate of amendments that implement recommendations from the Solarium Commission's report. A bipartisan coalition of members offered the amendments to the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that is expected to pass the House tomorrow. "The House's National Defense Authorization  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 21 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: As the U.S. Senate reconvenes, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is renewing his call for another COVID-19 relief package to meet urgent needs in Rhode Island. Whitehouse's priorities include providing an influx of aid to states and municipalities, emergency education funding, additional support for small businesses, investments to reduce racial inequities, and hazard pay to fro  more

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) announced that his maritime security proposal has been incorporated as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act making its way through Congress. "Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing on the high seas is a persistent, elusive threat to marine life and to ocean economies like Rhode Island's," said Whitehouse. "This amendment will help the  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 24 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following statement on July 23: "Today we mourn 1,001 fellow Rhode Islanders lost to COVID-19. Each victim of this pandemic had a story. "Each was a part of our community. "As we pass this sad milestone, our hearts are with each family grieving a lost loved one."  more

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, along with Congressmen Jim Langevin and David Cicilline, announced that $71.3 million in funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act has been distributed to five Rhode Island hospitals to offset the costs of caring for coronavirus patients. The funding was awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HH  more

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Tom Udall (D-NM), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of a petition for Supreme Court review of the major campaign finance case Lieu v. Federal Election Commission (FEC). The senators argue that the Court should take up the challenge to the wrongly decided   more

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: Citing concerns that the Trump Administration is seeking to use unidentified, heavily-armed armed federal personnel to escalate conflict in American cities where elected state and local officials oppose the federal intervention, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) joined Cory Booker (D-NJ), and 23 additional Senate colleagues in sending a letter pressing U.S. Attorney Gene  more

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) have joined U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and 43 of their Democratic Senate colleagues in writing to Vice President Mike Pence and Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx, urging the Trump Administration to reverse recent changes requiring hospitals to report data to a new system set up by the Department of Health and Huma  more

WASHINGTON, July 23 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on July 22: U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) testified yesterday before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs (SFOPS) regarding U.S. efforts to combat the global marine debris crisis and the Save Our Seas (SOS) 2.0 Act, legislation introduced by Sullivan, Whitehouse and Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) that passed   more

WASHINGTON, July 24 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on July 23: U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), co-chairs of the bipartisan Senate Oceans Caucus, have announced that their legislation to advance data collection and monitoring of the Great Lakes, oceans, bays, estuaries, and coasts was approved by the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee by voice vote yesterday. The Bolstering Long-Term Understandi  more