Rhode Island families understand better than most the toll that the recent recession has taken on our economy.

Nearly five years after the financial collapse on Wall Street, our state still has the highest unemployment rate in the country.

And many families who are able to find work still have...

The horrific images from the shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School are still seared into our minds -- of six-year-olds fleeing from danger, law enforcement officers overwhelmed with emotion, and parents grieving for loved ones taken from them forever.

President Obama's powerful words after the shooting spoke directly to...

Dear Speaker Boehner:

Today marks the official launch of a new annual "Manufacturing Day," an initiative sponsored by public and private organizations to highlight the critically important role the manufacturing sector plays in our economy. As the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in America, manufacturing is written into Rhode Island's...

In 2010, when I first ran for Congress, I came to this forum to call on President Obama to lead us out of Afghanistan as responsibly and expeditiously as possible. And as a freshman member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, I have consistently urged the Administration...

Yesterday, less than a year after a similar proposal was defeated, the House Republican leadership held a vote on a budget proposal that would extend tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, make deep cuts to programs that serve middle class families and end the Medicare guarantee for our seniors.

As...

This week, President Obama offered Congress a plan to rebuild our economy with proposals focused on manufacturing, innovation, and workforce training proposals that I and many of my colleagues support and have already been working hard to advance in Congress.

This is especially necessary in my...

Like many of you, I was appalled when I first read the recent announcement that several of the big banks are going to start charging fees, as much as $5 a month, for customers to use their debit cards. Since consumers regularly use their debit cards for everyday expenses like...

The president was right in his Wednesday night speech that we need to begin bringing our troops home from Afghanistan. But a counter-terrorism strategy doesn't need 70,000 boots on the ground, any more than it needed 100,000 boots on the ground.

What the president needed to tell us is how...

WASHINGTON, DC - On the heels of the President's announcement last week to begin withdrawing 10,000 American troops from Afghanistan, U.S. Congressman David Cicilline (D-RI) led a bipartisan group of his colleagues in a message to the President requesting a larger drawdown and an accelerated timetable.

In their letter, the...

Can you imagine a nation that thinks so little of its workers that it would slash billions of dollars in job training?

Can you imagine a nation that devalues our future to the point that it robs 9 million students the opportunity to pursue a higher education?

Can...