At tonight's Presidential Address at West Point, the presidential entourage included: Secretary of State Clinton, Secretary of Defense Gates, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullen, Commander of U.S. Central Command David Petraeus, WH Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett, and notably Rhode Island's Senator Jack Reed.
The inclusion of Reed in this group [...]
By JOHN MULLIGAN
Providence Journal Washington bureau
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Jack Reed was enroute Tuesday afternoon to his alma mater, the U.S. Military Academy, to be on hand as President Obama announces his new strategy in Afghanistan.
Reed, a 1971 graduate of West Point who served as an [...]
PROVIDENCE -- Monday morning, U.S. Senator Jack Reed is scheduled to go to Rhode Island College and announce that more than $280,000 in federal financing is coming to the college's School of Nursing, to upgrade a learning laboratory that simulates a real-world hospital setting.
Students use the lab to [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. Jack Reed was on hand Tuesday morning at the White House as President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama welcomed Prime Minister Singh of India and India's first lady, Gursharan Kaur, flanked by a cast of hundreds.
The star-studded crowd in the East Room ran the gamut [...]
After a historic 60-39 vote in the US Senate to begin consideration of the Protect Patients and Affordable Care Act of 2009, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) issued the following statement:
“Tonight the Senate voted to move one step closer to enacting the most significant health reform that this country [...]Sen. Jack Reed will be hosting his 19th annual college financial aid workshop this coming Monday, Nov 23, at the Lincoln campus of Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI), according to an e-mail from his office. The 90-minute workshop will feature Q&A and panelists from the RI Higher Education Authority, [...]
The Senate voted on Wednesday for a military construction appropriations bill that would provide $73.85 million next year for improvements at Naval Station Newport.
"This federal funding will allow the Navy to make critical renovations at Naval Station Newport," Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) said in statement announcing the unanimous [...]
Some musings on media happenings over the weekend:
The White House may be shunning Fox News, but its surrogates are still pushing the administration's line. Rhode Island's senior senator, Jack Reed, was on Fox News Sunday this weekend doing battle with Rudy Giuliani over Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try some [...]PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A former high-ranking Rhode Island state police official has been sworn in as the new U.S. Marshal.
Steven O'Donnell was sworn in Friday at the federal courthouse in downtown Providence.
O'Donnell was recommended by the state's Democratic senators, Sheldon Whitehouse and Jack Reed, and then nominated [...]
From the Chicago Tribune:
Sen. Jack Reed, Democrat from Rhode Island and a West Point graduate, was fresh from a meeting at the Pentagon this morning when he was asked about the decision that President Barack Obama faces about troop deployments in Afghanistan."He has to do" [...]
Senator Christopher Dodd has unveiled his lengthy, long-awaited bill on overhauling a financial system that played a central role in the economic crash. The bill is sweeping in scope, but includes - among other things - significant segments of legislation Jack Reed submitted earlier this year cracking down [...]
Rhody's Congressional delegation was in the spotlight this weekend. First, Senator Jack Reed was on CBS' Face the Nation doing battle with Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina, on health care reform. Reed voiced support for a public option, while acknowledging an "active debate" on alternatives to a straight [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- U.S. Sen. Jack Reed will be among the panelists Sunday on CBS's Face the Nation when the group discusses the Fort Hood shootings and the elections this week.
Reed will be joined at 10:30 a.m. on WPRI-TV by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, a member of the [...]
Education Secretary Arne Duncan, third from left, stops at Hamilton Elementary School as part of a national "listening tour." With him Monday, from left, are U.S. Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse and Jack Reed, of Rhode Island, and Larry Purtill, president of National Education Association of Rhode Island. [...]
