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Cicilline, other mayors visit White House to push economic stimulus

7:44 AM Wed, Feb 04, 2009 | | Comments (1)
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau    Email

WASHINGTON -- More than 20 mayors from around the country, including David Cicilline, of Providence, are slated to meet with top policy advisers at the White House this morning as President Obama's allies in the Senate resume their scramble for......

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Rep. Kennedy joins powerful government oversight committee

10:20 AM Thu, Jan 29, 2009 | | Write a comment
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau    Email

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy has picked up a new assignment on a House panel with a long history of newsworthy investigative hearings. Kennedy is among 23 Democrats who will serve on the House Committee on Oversight and Government......

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Reed: Obama team should consider creating 'bad bank'

12:13 PM Tue, Jan 27, 2009 | | Write a comment
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau    Email

WASHINGTON -- The government should consider creating a "bad bank" to help ailing private banks to get rid of bad assets so that they can recover, U.S. Senator Jack Reed, D-RI, said this morning. "The bad bank is something we......

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 Tags  bad bank   Obama administration   regulation   resources   Security and Exchange Commission   Senator Jack Reed   Wall Street  

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R.I. officials praise Obama action on auto emission standards

5:55 PM Mon, Jan 26, 2009 | | Write a comment
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau    Email

By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON _ President Obama won bipartisan praise today from Rhode Island officials for opening the door to state-level rules on automobile pollution that go further than federal standards. Democrats took the opportunity......

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 Tags  Attorney General Patrick Lynch   California   Department of Environmental Management   Environmental Protection Agency   President Obama   Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse   W. Michael Sullivan  

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Reed, in speech, will seek 'top-to-bottom' review of SEC

12:17 PM Mon, Jan 26, 2009 | | Write a comment
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau    Email

WASHINGTON _ Sen. Jack Reed will seek what his office calls ``a top-to-bottom review'' of the Securities and Exchange Commission tomorrow in a speech that proposes changes in the regulation of financial services industry. Reed, a senior member of the......

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North Kingstown band wins the gold in competition during inaugural celebration

11:00 AM Mon, Jan 19, 2009 | | Write a comment
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau    Email

WASHINGTON -- One group of Rhode Islanders will bring home some hardware this week ,along with the ticket from the Presidential Inaugural cermonies on the U.S. Capitol grounds, the Obama T-shirts and the trove of memories. Bouncing back from defeat......

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 Tags  balmages   cicilline   fillmore   George Mason   inauguration   north kingstown symphonic band   obama   Rhode Island   swearingen  

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Cicilline's brunch to draw a big crowd in Washington

8:32 AM Mon, Jan 19, 2009 | | Write a comment
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau    Email

WASHINGTON -- David Cicilline and his guests will have plenty to chat about at the Providence mayor's pre-inaugural brunch this morning at a Georgetown hotel. Many of them fought mazes of security checkpoints and chill winds off the Potomac......

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 Tags  Bono   Cicilline   Guthrie   inauguration   Obama   Seeger   Springsteen  

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Tributes continue for late Sen. Claiborne Pell

2:52 PM Fri, Jan 16, 2009 | | Write a comment
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau    Email

Tributes have continued to pour in for the late Sen. Claiborne Pell, who died on Jan 1. One noteworthy encomium this week came from a long-ago protégé, newly sworn in as a member of the 111th Congress. Rep. Gerald E.......

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R.I. delegation copes with demand for inaugural tickets

12:00 PM Fri, Jan 16, 2009 | | Comments (2)
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau    Email

WASHINGTON -- With Rhode Island's demand for inaugural tickets many times bigger than the supply, the state's congressional delegation has resorted to lotteries, family quotas and other strategems in order to give constituents a fair crack at coming to see......

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Mass. founder of Homes for Our Troops at Bush's farewell speech

11:51 AM Fri, Jan 16, 2009 | | Write a comment
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau    Email

Southeastern New England was represented last night at President Bush's farewell address from the White House. John Gonsalves of Taunton, Mass., the president and founder of Homes for Our Troops, was among the dozens of citizens from around the country......

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 Tags  Bush farewell speech   Homes for Our Troops   John Gonsalves   President Bush  

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Mass. governor to help Obama kick off inaugural festivities

9:45 AM Thu, Jan 15, 2009 | | Write a comment
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau    Email

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, a longtime friend of Barack Obama, has been tapped to help the president-elect kick off the inaugural festivities on a note of bipartisan harmony by honoring his vanquished Republican foe, Sen. John McCain of Arizona.......

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Langevin gains rank on House Armed Services Committee

9:29 AM Thu, Jan 15, 2009 | | Write a comment
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau    Email

As expected, Rep. Jim Langevin has landed some decent subcommittee assignments and moved up a few notches in seniority on the House Armed Services Committee. Langevin will rank third among Democrats (behind Chairman Gene Taylor of Mississippi and Solomon......

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