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Whitehouse offers dinner, info for flood victims Sunday

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Published May 14, 2010 at 10:36 a.m.

CRANSTON -- U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse will host a community dinner this Sunday evening for people to share their stories about flooding in their neighborhoods and to speak with state and federal emergency officials ... The 6 p.m. event is being held at the Cranston Senior Center, 1070 Cranston St ... The diner, which is free to Rhode Islanders, will give people a chance to talk directly with Whitehouse, and to representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Small Business

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U.S. Senate panel to consider McConnell judgeship

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Published May 7, 2010 at 6:45 p.m.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a confirmation hearing for May 13 on the nomination of Providence lawyer John J. McConnell, Jr. to the U.S. District Court for Rhode Island ... He will be among five judges considered that day by the key panel - one to a federal appeals court, the rest to the trial courts at the federal district level ... McConnell, 51, is a top political campaign contributor and a successful plaintiffs lawyer - best known for the big roles he

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Transcript: Sen. Whitehouse chats about Wall St. reform

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Published April 30, 2010 at 4:22 p.m.
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Journal photo / Sandor Bodo ... Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and aide Matt Thornton chat live with projo.com readers ... Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI, chatting live about Wall Street reform Friday. The following is a full transcript: ... Sen. Whitehouse: Hello, everyone ... Thanks for participating in this web chat today ... This is an important time now that we have broken the Republican filibuster and gone to the Wall Street reform bill ... I am looking forward to taking your questions, and we

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WPRI rolling out next segment of voters' poll Friday night

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Published Feb. 5, 2010 at 4:56 p.m.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A recent poll suggests that Rhode Island voters are angry and they're taking it out on their elected officials ... The poll conducted by WPRI-TV Channel 12, is being released in parts. More will be available this evening; projo.com will publish results on the 7to7newsblog after 6 p.m ... Poll results reported by the television station Thursday night show that just 33 percent of Rhode Islanders rated U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's performance as excellent or good, while 54

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Update: Vote sends Thompson nomination to full Senate

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Published Jan. 21, 2010 at 4:23 p.m.

By John E. Mulligan ... Journal Washington Bureau ... WASHINGTON -- Without dissent, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to recommend that the full Senate confirm President Obama's nomination of Rhode Island Superior Court Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson to sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ... The bipartisan voice vote set the stage for Senate action to seat the 21-year veteran of the Rhode Island courts on the federal appeals court in Boston. Thompson would be the

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‘10 News Conference’ looks at year past, year ahead in politics

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Published Dec. 30, 2009 at 4:42 p.m.

Barack Obama, Sheldon Whitehouse and Patrick Kennedy claimed headlines in 2009 ...

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RI woman to testify at Senate panel on medical reform

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Published Oct. 20, 2009 at 11:10 a.m.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A Rhode Island resident is scheduled to testify Tuesday morning at a hearing of a Senate subcommittee that is examining potential bankruptcy reforms aimed at medical debtors ... Kerry Burns, a Coventry resident who lost her home and filed for bankruptcy after her 4-year-old son died of complications from cystic fibrosis, will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight, which is chaired by U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I ...

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Flashback: Oct. 12

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Published Oct. 12, 2009 at 6:44 a.m.

Then-Sen. Barack Obama visits Rhode Island in support of Sheldon Whitehouse ...

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Brown relights nearly 5,000 Providence homes

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Published Oct. 9, 2009 at 4:01 p.m.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The leaders of Brown University's Project 20/20 announced Friday that they have nearly completed their goal of installing energy saving compact fluorescent light bulbs in 5,000 homes of low- and moderate-income familes in Providence ... The students met with U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse in the home of Sabina Asante off Reservoir Avenue to celebrate completion of the project. Hers was the first home retrofitted when the program began 18 months ago ... Brown Prof. Steven

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Update: R.I. delegation, Carcieri meet on wind energy

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Published Oct. 2, 2009 at 6:04 p.m.

By Steve Peoples ... Providence Journal State House Bureau ... PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Rhode Island's Congressional delegation is meeting this afternoon behind closed doors with Governor Carcieri ... The pols are not expected to discuss the governor's recent letter to the delegation discouraging Democrats' efforts to overhaul the nation's health-care system ... Instead, according to Carcieri spokeswoman Amy Kempe, the delegation is getting an update on the state's off-shore wind project ... "I think

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