Sheldon Whitehouse

Sheldon Whitehouse

• Obama dines and talks issues with Senate Democrats

  President Barack Obama regrouped over dinner Wednesday with a dozen Democratic senators, attempting to press ahead on tenuous elements of his agenda ... 

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  Alert to Congress: Nuclear evacuation may bog down

  Regulators and congressional investigators clashed Wednesday over a new report warning that in the event of an accident at a nuclear plant, panicking ... 

• US Senators McCain, Whitehouse visit Mali

  United States Sens. John McCain and Sheldon Whitehouse arrived in Mali's capital, Bamako, Tuesday for a two-day visit to assess the country's battle ... 

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  Independent RI governor considers joining Dems

  The most well-worn political parlor game in Rhode Island these days surrounds Republican-turned-independent Gov. Lincoln Chafee and whether he intends ... 

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  US Lawmakers meet with jailed American in Cuba

  U.S. lawmakers confirmed on Wednesday that they visited an American man whose detention and long sentence in Cuba has hampered efforts to improve ties ... 

• US lawmakers visit Cuba

  A delegation of American lawmakers led by Sen. Patrick Leahy arrived in Cuba on Monday to gauge the island's economic changes and stress the ... 

• Senate passes bill to improve embassy security

  The Senate on Monday approved legislation that would allow the State Department to transfer $1.1 billion to improve security at U.S. 

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  Giffords pleads for gun curbs; NRA fights back

  Severely wounded and still recovering, former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords begged lawmakers at an emotional hearing Wednesday to act quickly to curb ... 

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  US condemns comments from Egypt's Morsi

  The Obama administration on Tuesday gave a blistering review of remarks that Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi made almost three years ago about Jews ...