WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rhode Island Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse both voted "Yea" as the Senate passed a historic immigration reform bill Thursday afternoon on a 68-to-32 roll-call vote.
The bill calls for an earned path to citizenship for some 11 million undocumented immigrants living in this country, and massive additional border security.
It now goes to the House, where passage is uncertain.
Whitehouse sat on the Senate Judiciary Committee that last month passed the bill, crafted by the bipartisan so-called "Gang of Eight" last month, onto the Senate floor.
“This is the fabric of Rhode Island,” said U.S. Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) about Block Island. “I often tell people to come to the island. It’s a wonderful place to live and visit. I think it’s one of the loveliest places in the country.”
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Senate Democrats demanded that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) do more to protect investors.
Mayor Scott Avedisian never thought he’d see the day when he and a group of dignitaries would celebrate $250 million in improvement projects at T.F. Green Airport that had long been opposed by the city.
The state Department of Environmental Management, in partnership with the fishermen of Newport, hosted a grand opening last week at State Pier Nine in Newport for the new Newport Lobster Shack Kitchen.
With the U.S. Senate expected to consider legislation that would lower student loan payments, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse held a discussion Thursday...