Open Congress : News Articles for Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D, RI]

Cybersecurity meeting featuring 2 in RI delegation

2012-06-03T01:00:00Z

...of Rhode Island's congressional delegation are scheduled to address a national cybersecurity conference at West Point. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is expected to deliver the keynote address Sunday evening at a cybersecurity gathering at the U.S. Military Ac

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Let’s All Say “Cards on the Table,” Again!

2012-06-01T13:57:24Z

According to a May 20th, 2012 New York Times house editorial, McCain has shown interest in Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s (D, RI) new DISCLOSE bill, which requires “timely public disclosure of donors writing checks of $10,000 and more.”

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No Disclosure, Please, We're Contractors

2012-05-30T05:53:01Z

Jon Tester (D-Mont.), the only of nine members of the Homeland Security Committee to vote against it, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), a campaign reform advocate who recently filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to reconsider ...

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Field briefing held in RI on asthma prevention

2012-05-29T16:24:08Z

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has held a field briefing in Rhode Island with state and federal officials on asthma prevention. The Democrat says asthma is the top chronic childhood disease and more than 1 in 10 Rhode ...

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Field briefing held in RI on asthma prevention

2012-05-29T16:24:08Z

Sen. Whitehouse to chair field briefing in Providence on asthma prevention

2012-05-29T02:40:55Z

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has scheduled a field briefing in Rhode Island with state and federal officials on asthma prevention. The Democrat says asthma is the top chronic childhood disease and that more than 1 in 10 ...

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Field briefing set in RI on asthma prevention

2012-05-29T02:19:27Z

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has scheduled a field briefing in Rhode Island with state and federal officials on asthma prevention. The Democrat says asthma is the top chronic childhood disease and that more than 1 in 10 ...

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Field briefing set in RI on asthma prevention

2012-05-29T01:00:00Z

...R.I. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has scheduled a field briefing in Rhode Island with state and federal officials on asthma prevention. The Democrat says asthma is the top chronic childhood disease and that more than 1 in 10 Rhode Islanders suf

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Changing How Health Care Is Paid for and Delivered

2012-05-29T01:00:00Z

...Tanden’s remarks. Moderated by Topher Spiro, CAP Managing Director for Health Policy, the panel also included Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI); Richard J. Gilfillan, director of the Innovation Center at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; Mo

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The Pancreatic Cancer Research & Education Act (S.362) Reaches 50 Senate Co-Sponsors and Majority of Senate Help Committee

2012-05-29T00:10:36Z

(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111004/LA79914LOGO) The bill, introduced in the House by Representatives Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Leonard Lance (R-NJ) and in the Senate by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), will ensure that the National ...

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The Pancreatic Cancer Research & Education Act Reaches 50 Senate Co-Sponsors and Majority of Senate Help Committee

2012-05-25T16:36:02Z

Reed: Federal money available to buy some Cranston houses innundated during 2010 floods

2012-05-25T01:00:00Z

...of the houses on Perkins Avenue, a flood-prone neighborhood next to the Pawtuxet River, the senator said. Reed, U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Mayor Allan Fung will talk about the plan at a noon press conference Tuesday at 120 Perkins Ave., he said. T

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Open Thread: Democrats Struggle to Decide Whose Money to Take

2012-05-25T01:00:00Z

...and Jack Reed (R.I.) told The Hill Thursday that Democrats should continue to follow the president's lead at $250,000. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.) noted that, as a member of the Budget Committee, he'd backed a 2011 plan to adopt a $500,000 cut-off fo

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Power plant pollution ranks high in Utah, the West

2012-05-25T01:00:00Z

...from plants in New Hampshire and Ohio at the top of the nationwide list. The GAO did its inventory at the request of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., and chairman of a Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee. In a letter describing its findings

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Support Urged for Campaign Finance Disclosure Bill

2012-05-24T01:00:00Z

...just short in the Senate, where not a single Republican backed the bill. This year’s version, sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), is more narrowly tailored. Last week, the newspaper the Hill quoted erstwhile reform champion Se

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Editorial: Super PAC donors need disclosing

2012-05-24T01:00:00Z

...and companies supporting them.”The Arizona Republican reportedly is considering backing legislation by Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island to require such PACs to promptly disclose donors of $10,000 or more. In their ads, they also woul

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Whitehouse: Justices' Lack of Political Experience Helps Explain Citizens United

2012-05-23T17:28:30Z

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse in an interview with lefty advocacy group ThinkProgress: Unfortunately you had the five right-wing judges, none of whom have ever run for any office ever and have zero political experience between the five of them ...

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Sen. Whitehouse: ‘Yep, I Do’ Think Filibuster Reform Is Going To Happen

2012-05-23T09:28:54Z

In an exclusive interview with ThinkProgress yesterday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) predicted that rules reform will happen in the wake of Reid’s admission: QUESTION: Majority Leader Reid just came out in favor of filibuster reform after he ...

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Capitol Lens: Students and Teacher

2012-05-23T01:00:00Z

...Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse addresses a group of Close Up program students from the Ocean State on Wednesday in the Hart Senate Office Building Atrium. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, Secretary of State Hillary R

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Dear SCOTUS: We ❤ Citizens United!

2012-05-23T01:00:00Z

...reverse, or review the decision. The majority of the briefs, like the one submitted by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), come from petitioners upset by the unlimited outside spending triggered by Citizens United. Why mess with

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