Press Releases

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and U.S. Congressmen Jim Langevin and David Cicilline today announced a $2,031,812 grant to provide Rhode Island child development and family support services to low-income infants, toddlers, pregnant women and their families. The grant will be administered by Children’s Friend, a child-serving nonprofit agency with sites in Providence, Pawtucket, and Central Falls. Children’s Friend’s Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership is open to families statewide who meet income guidelines and other eligibility criteria.

WASHINGTON – House Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman David N. Cicilline (RI-01) issued the following statement on today’s reports that Facebook has settled for $5 billion with the Federal Trade Commission:

“The FTC just gave Facebook a Christmas present five months early. It’s very disappointing that such an enormously powerful company that engaged in such serious misconduct is getting a slap on the wrist. This fine is a fraction of Facebook’s annual revenue. It won’t make them think twice about their responsibility to protect user data.”

WASHINGTON – Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC) Chair David N. Cicilline (RI-01) issued the following statement today:

“I’m pleased that President Trump has finally backed down from his ridiculous effort to weaponize the Census. Apparently, the rule of law still means something in this country.”

WASHINGTON – U.S. Congressman David N. Cicilline (RI-01), who introduced the Small Business Reorganization Act (H.R. 3311) with Republican Congressman Ben Cline (VA-06), issued the following statement today after the bill passed the House Judiciary Committee:

WASHINGTON – The U.S. House of Representatives adopted an amendment authored by U.S. Congressman David N. Cicilline (RI-01) to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 today to require a report on the increased automation of the Defense manufacturing industry. Information from this report will be critical in protecting jobs in Rhode Island’s defense manufacturing sector.

WASHINGTON – House Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman David N. Cicilline (RI-01) issued the following statement today on the “social media summit” President Trump is hosting for conservatives tomorrow at the White House:

“I’ve never seen evidence of tech firm bias against conservatives. If someone wants to show me some empirical data, instead of some alt-right member’s paranoid claims, I’d appreciate it. In the meantime, it would be great if President Trump would get serious about antitrust.”

PAWTUCKET – Last month, the U.S. House approved an amendment blocking funding for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s so-called “Commission on Unalienable Rights” in the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Agencies appropriations bill. DPCC Chair David N. Cicilline (RI-01), who authored the House amendment, issued the following statement today after Pompeo unveiled his plans for the Commission:

PAWTUCKET – Democratic Policy and Communications Committee Chair David N. Cicilline (RI-01) and thirty cosponsors introduced legislation today to permanently ban the manufacture, possession, sale, or transport of bump stocks and acceleration devices like the ones used to murder 58 people in Las Vegas just two years ago.

Chairman Cicilline pledges solutions for working people

WASHINGTON – The U.S. House Antitrust Subcommittee, led by Chairman David N. Cicilline (D-RI), held a hearing this morning on possible solutions for the student debt crisis, as well as ways to make it easier for small business owners, farmers, and veterans to use the bankruptcy system to offload debt.