Press Releases

Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Angus King (I-ME), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Peter Welch (D-VT) introduced the VA Claim Sharks Effective Warnings Act, legislation to require the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to more effectively warn veterans... Continue Reading

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today issued the following statement after Republicans broke Committee rules to jam through the nomination of Emil Bove and Democrats walked out of the meeting:... Continue Reading

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) today issued the following statement after Senate Republicans passed a rescissions package in the middle of the night cutting over $9 billion in government funding that was previously approved on a bipartisan basis:... Continue Reading

The Child Care for Working Families Act aims to benefit families, workers, & entire U.S. economy by making child care services more affordable & authorizing grants to make providers’ wages more livable WASHINGTON, DC – Child care is essential to families,... Continue Reading

RI Senators team up with colleagues to demand Trump Administration explain rollback of medical debt rule that barred medical debt information from consumer credit reports WASHINGTON, DC – Nearly 15 million Americans were poised to see their credit scores rise by... Continue Reading

Legislation builds on successful home care program deployed by RI hospitals Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) joined Senators Tim Scott (R-SC) and Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) in introducing the Hospital Inpatient Services Modernization Act, legislation to extend the Acute... Continue Reading

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For more than a decade, Senator has called on Congress to act on the threat of climate change Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), the top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, last night delivered his 300th speech urging Congress to... Continue Reading

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) today issued the following statement after Senate Republicans jammed through their Big, Beautiful-for-Billionaires Bill: “Trump’s Big, Beautiful-for-Billionaires Bill is one massively destructive piece of legislation.  Cooked in back rooms, dropped at midnight, and... Continue Reading

Legislation under consideration in the Senate would throw at least 17 million people off health insurance Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) today slammed Republicans’ ongoing billionaire tax heist, which is funded by cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable... Continue Reading

Washington, DC – In case you missed it, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, published an op-ed on Friday in U.S. News & World Report highlighting a tax provision in the Republican reconciliation package that incentivizes... Continue Reading

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Courts Subcommittee, today released the following statement after the far-right majority on the Supreme Court issued a ruling effectively ending nationwide injunctions: “While we need to see... Continue Reading

Bove, the Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General and Trump’s former personal attorney, is nominated to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circu Washington, D.C. – Last week, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary... Continue Reading

Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Representatives Chellie Pingree (ME-01) and James Moylan (R-GU) reintroduced the bipartisan, bicameral Coastal Communities Ocean Acidification Act.  The legislation will strengthen coordination and collaboration between federal, state, local,... Continue Reading

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today released the following statement after Senate Republicans held a partisan hearing on presidential fitness focusing exclusively on the previous president and ignoring widespread concern... Continue Reading

Washington, DC – As Republicans continue to negotiate their Big, Beautiful-for-Billionaires Bill behind closed doors to terminate health insurance for millions of Americans, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Representative Debbie Dingell (D-MI) introduced the Stabilize Medicaid and CHIP Coverage Act,... Continue Reading

Bipartisan legislation named in honor of two Marines, Rhode Islander Lance Cpl. Daniel J. Harvey, Jr., and Iowan Cpl. Adam Lambert, who died by suicide Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Joni Ernst (R-IA) today introduced bipartisan legislation... Continue Reading

WASHINGTON, DC – Marking the 13th anniversary of the creation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Today, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and their Senate colleagues urged U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to resume processing applications... Continue Reading

LINCOLN, RI – Fire departments across northern Rhode Island have teamed up to acquire a new regional air/light unit that will help ensure firefighters can safely and effectively respond to a wide range of emergencies throughout their communities. After delivering a $586,363... Continue Reading

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Courts Subcommittee and the Senate’s leading champion for increasing transparency in the judicial system, today released the following statement on the U.S. Judicial Conference’s Committee on Rules... Continue Reading