PAWTUCKET – The Office of Congressman David N. Cicilline is accepting requests from residents of Rhode Island’s First Congressional District who are interested in attending Pope Francis’s address to a joint session of Congress at 10 AM on Thursday, September 24, 2015. Pope Francis, who was elected in March 2013, will become the first pope in […]Load more...
VOA News The State Department has released another 7,000 pages of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails, sent and received when she was secretary of state. The controversy over Clinton using a private account instead of a government account apparently has hurt her presidential campaign. Clinton denies sending or receiving any classified emails. But some voters say […]Load more...
Reuters/VOA WASHINGTON—Republican Jeb Bush offered his most direct assault on Donald Trump to date on Tuesday, retaliating for a series of personal insults with a review of his front-running rival’s past record of supporting Democratic causes. In a Web video, the Bush campaign used Trump’s own words in support of Democrat Hillary Clinton and for […]Load more...
WASHINGTON—Hillary Rodham Clinton has a message for the country’s wealthiest Democrats: I need you, unfortunately. «We’re going to have to do what we can in this election to make sure that we’re not swamped by money on the other side,» the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination said Thursday. But when asked how she feels […]Load more...
WASHINGTON—Some Republicans gleefully scripted Donald Trump’s political obituary in the wake of his scathing comments about Sen. John McCain’s military service earlier this month, hoping that his freewheeling presidential campaign had finally imploded. Predictions of his demise were apparently premature. Instead, Trump is gaining momentum ahead of next week’s first Republican debate, a new Reuters/Ipsos […]Load more...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Congressman David N. Cicilline (D-RI) today announced the introduction of the Equality Act – legislation to extend anti-discrimination protections in public accommodations, housing, employment, federal funding, education, credit, and jury service. Cicilline, who is one of seven openly gay members of Congress, announced the Equality Act today during a press conference with Senator […]Load more...
U.S. real estate mogul Donald Trump, among the top contenders for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, refused Sunday to back off his attack on the Vietnam War record of Senator John McCain, the party’s 2008 presidential candidate who was tortured during his five years as a prisoner of war in Hanoi in the 1960s. Trump […]Load more...
President Barack Obama staunchly defended the historic deal that aims to restrain Tehran’s nuclear development program Wednesday, saying it represents the world’s best «means of ensuring Iran does not get a nuclear weapon.» Seeking to sell the Iran nuclear deal to skeptical U.S. lawmakers and the American public, Obama insisted the landmark agreement is also the […]Load more...
WASHINGTON—Candidates in the 2016 U.S. presidential race are sounding off on the Iranian nuclear deal, and their reactions primarily are split along party lines. Republican contenders have been critical and blunt in their assessment of the agreement. Their skepticism contrasts with much warmer reactions from the Democratic side. Here is a list (in alphabetical order) […]Load more...
WASHINGTON—U.S. lawmakers gave sharply diverging reactions to the landmark nuclear accord announced with Iran, with Republicans far more hostile than most Democrats. Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell predicted President Barack Obama would have a “real challenge” getting the pact through a skeptical, Republican-led Congress, and criticized it as “the best deal acceptable to Iran, […]Load more...