News Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Jack Reed today hailed the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) final rule that explicitly bans the use of electronic cigarettes on commercial flights.  The final rule applies to all scheduled... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – The effort to provide much needed aid to replace the aging water infrastructure in Flint, Michigan and other communities with drinking water emergencies is finally gaining bipartisan momentum.  A key obstruction to the... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today Congress approved the $1.15 trillion Fiscal Year 2016 Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations bill, also known as the omnibus, that included many important provisions for Rhode Island families. U.S. Senator... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – In an effort to increase transparency for investors and consumers in an age of persistent cybersecurity threats, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Susan Collins (R-ME) today introduced the bipartisan Cybersecurity Disclosure... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the House and Senate Appropriations committees filed a $1.15 trillion fiscal year 2016 omnibus spending bill to fund the federal government through September 30, 2016. U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), Ranking Member of the... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Following passage of a major, five-year transportation authorization bill that included several bipartisan measures to provide targeted regulatory relief for financial institutions such as community banks and credit unions,... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) today introduced legislation in the Senate that would help put an end to the for-profit industry’s predatory... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Brian Schatz (D-HI), U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright (D-PA), and 32 of their colleagues sent a bicameral letter to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Mary Jo White to... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse today joined eight other Senators in introducing the Tobacco to 21 Act (S. 2100), legislation that would prohibit the sale of tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21. ... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) is calling on the nation’s foremost consumer and financial watchdogs to investigate an industry that may be preying on recipients of structured settlements, convincing them to trade decades... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Seeking to promote and preserve the special consumer protections afforded to military families, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI), Patty Murray (D-WA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Dick Durbin (D-IL) are calling on U.S. Secretary of... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – In an effort to strengthen the integrity of our financial marketplace, better protect public investors, and empower the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to investigate and pursue more securities law violators, U.S.... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) announced finalized rules aimed at updating and improving the Military Lending Act (MLA) to provide new loan protections for U.S. troops and their families.  The new rules are... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – In an effort to protect investors and strengthen oversight and accountability of Wall Street, U.S. Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) are introducing bipartisan legislation to strengthen the Securities and... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – In an effort to better protect members of the military and their families from abusive financial practices, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) along with U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and several of their colleagues, are... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) considers new rules to rein in predatory practices in payday lending, 32 U.S. Senators are urging the agency to issue the strongest possible rules to combat the “cascade... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) today testified before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee at a hearing on risk-sharing by institutions of higher education.  Reed discussed the critical need to... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), a senior member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, issued the following statement after Banking Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-AL) unveiled a new... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – A recent decision by the highest federal court in New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in the case of United States v. Newman, limits prosecutors’ ability to pursue insider trading cases and may... Read More

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is urging continued support to help protect U.S. military families from predatory lenders and removal of a needless delay to credit... Read More