News Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) issued the following statement regarding the crisis in Nagorno Karabakh, where a conflict launched by Azerbaijan against Armenians that was supported by Turkey and proxy forces has caused a mass... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, after national media outlets unanimously declared Joe Biden the winner of Arizona’s 11 electoral votes, increasing his Electoral College victory total to 290, and with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security declaring this... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI – Today, after President Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper and named Christopher C. Miller as Acting Defense Secretary for the remaining few weeks of the Trump Administration, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the Ranking Member of... Read More

NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI - The enormous black cylinders that begin to take shape in the cavernous manufacturing production facilities at Quonset Point provide the United States with an unparalleled strategic deterrent that helps safeguard the nation and... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement in reaction to reports from Turkish media that Turkey, a member of NATO, has conducted live fire testing of a... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, after President Donald Trump suggested to Fox News that Gold Star families may have given him COVID-19 at a recent indoor White House event that the Trump Administration organized and hosted, U.S. Senator Jack Reed... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ) along with several national security-minded Senators are sounding the alarm over an approval by the Trump Administration to export over 227 tons of sensitive material... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – In an effort to help rebuild and strengthen U.S. research, development, and manufacturing capabilities and hold China accountable for its actions, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) joined with U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and... Read More

PROVIDENCE, RI -- Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), a West Point graduate and the Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee, condemned President Trump’s language deriding members of the Armed Forces, fallen U.S. service members,... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI), the Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee, and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, led a group of twenty-nine senators in sending a letter... Read More

NEWPORT, RI – After speaking with Admiral Karl Schultz, Coast Guard Commandant, U.S. Senator Jack Reed, the Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee and a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, today announced that Rhode Island... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Adam Smith (D-WA), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today issued the following joint statement after... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee, urged President Trump to walk back his unsubstantiated statement that that the massive explosion in Beirut was some type of “terrible... Read More

Thank you, Senator Inhofe.  I want to join you in welcoming our nominees.  I would also like to thank their families for their support. I would be remiss if I did not once again take a moment to remind my colleagues as we begin this... Read More

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.  Before I turn to today’s witness panel, I must say a few words about the weekend appointment of Anthony Tata to perform the duties of Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy.  As everyone here... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Just days after President Trump’s controversial nominee, retired Brigadier General Anthony J. Tata, who President Trump wanted to install as the third highest civilian at the U.S. Department of Defense -- Undersecretary... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement on the cancellation of a scheduled nomination hearing for Anthony Tata, nominated to be Under Secretary of Defense... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, after the Trump Administration announced plans to move ahead with a plan to withdraw nearly 12,000 U.S. troops from Germany at an undefined cost that Secretary of Defense Esper acknowledged would be “several billion... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, a day after the U.S. Senate voted 86-14 to approve the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2021, which includes a bipartisan amendment directing the Pentagon to establish a process for changing the... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – In an effort to safeguard the nation, the U.S. Senate voted 86-14 to approve the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2021.  This legislation authorizes funding levels and sets policies to equip,... Read More