Category : Politics

WASHINGTON, DC – In an effort to improve the fairness, integrity, and transparency of U.S. financial markets and crack down on harmful insider trading, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Bob Menendez (D-NJ), two senior members of the Senate Banking Committee, introduced the Insider Trading Prohibition Act (S. 3990) to establish a clear statutory prohibition against insider trading.  This legislation […]Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following President Joe Biden’s remarks calling for a war crimes trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin, Representatives David N. Cicilline (RI-01) and Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) – authors of the Putin War Crimes Resolution, H.Res.964 – released the following joint statement: “We strongly support President Biden’s call for a war crimes trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin for […]Read More

WAHINGTON, DC — Today, after Congressional negotiators reached agreement on a bipartisan $10 billion COVID-19 Supplemental Appropriations package, U.S. Senator Jack Reed, a member of the Appropriations Committee, issued the following statement: “This money is needed to protect Americans and save lives.  It will help purchase more tests and vaccines and improve public health.  It will […]Read More

JAMESTOWN/MIDDLETOWN – Democratic State Representative Deb Ruggiero formally announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island. In a video released by her campaign, Ruggiero says as lieutenant governor she will continue her focus on the 4 4 E’s – Economy, Environment, Education and Elders which have been the cornerstone of her 14 year legislative career.   “Working families and […]Read More

Statement from Matt Rauschenbach, Campaign Manager for Team Nirva.  From the outset, this campaign has been committed to grassroots fundraising, reaching voters where they are, and building a campaign infrastructure to win.   In quarter one, we raised over $50,000 from over 200 individual contributions. The power of this campaign resides with the people, and […]Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI- General Treasurer and congressional candidate Seth Magaziner announced today that he raised over $1.4 million in the first two months of his campaign for Congress. “People in Rhode Island know Seth will fight for working families and they are deeply concerned about losing this seat to extremist Republicans who will private social security and […]Read More

Calls on the city to allocate additional staff and resources to Gun Task Force, Investigative Unit and violent reduction efforts PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Providence Mayoral candidate, Brett Smiley,  hosted a press conference this morning outside the Providence Public Safety Complex calling on the City of Providence to provide additional staff and resources to the Providence […]Read More