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Reed on the vice presidency: I want to stay in Senate

5:24 PM Fri, Jul 25, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (5)
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau    Email

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, the object of heightened speculation this week after his tour of Afghanistan and Iraq at the side of Barack Obama, today played down the suggestion that the Democratic presidential candidate would consider him as......

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 Tags  Barack Obama   Jack Reed   Rhode Island senator   vice presidency  

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Holy Saints Patrick and Joseph and other immigration news

3:12 PM Fri, Jul 25, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By Peter Phipps    Email

By Cynthia Needham, Journal State House Bureau Even a topic as weighty as immigration deserves a little levity. So here's today's dose. Rhode Islanders frustrated that the Assembly did not pass a single immigration proposal this year -- either cracking......

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Rep. Kennedy's mental health bill finds a way to the Senate

1:36 PM Fri, Jul 25, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau    Email

Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy's signature mental health bill has found a legislative vehicle that could speed its progress through the Senate, where the measure has been on hold weeks. The chairman of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Max Baucus,......

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 Tags  mental health   mental health parity bill   Rep. Patrick Kennedy  

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Whitehouse backs action against oil speculation

6:39 AM Thu, Jul 24, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau    Email

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse favors a Senate measure that would sharpen the regulatory tools that can be used to discourage market speculation in energy products. "Families in Rhode Island and across the country are having to choose between filling their......

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 Tags  Oil   speculation   whitehouse  

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Rhode Island House members back housing rescue

4:46 PM Wed, Jul 23, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau    Email

Representatives James R. Langevin and Patrick J. Kennedy voted Wednesday in the commanding House majority that passed legislation intended to rescue failing mortgages and bolster confidence in the giant companies that handle much of the nation's housing credit. Langevin......

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 Tags  foreclosure   Kennedy   langevin   mortgage  

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DHS director quashes rumor of his run for governor

3:48 PM Wed, Jul 23, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Susan Areson    Email

By Cynthia Needham Journal State House Bureau Gary Alexander for Governor in 2010? Don't bet on it. Talk of the Department of Human Services director staging a possible run for the top job began swirling after a New Hampshire politics......

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 Tags  Department of Human Services   Gary Alexander   governor  

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Obama takes issue of Mideast peace to the mountaintop

5:26 PM Tue, Jul 22, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Andrea Panciera    Email

AP photo / Jae C. Hong Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, accompanied by Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., second from right, and Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., right, speaks during a news conference at the citadel in Amman,......

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 Tags  Amman   Barack Obama   Jack Reed   Mideast peace   Mideast visit  

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Lt. Gov. Roberts has new chief of staff

11:34 AM Tue, Jul 22, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Andrea Panciera    Email

By Cynthia Needham Journal State House Bureau Why quit while we're at it? Also in the new jobs department, Jennifer Wood, Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts' policy director, has taken over as her chief of staff, following the somewhat mysterious departure......

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 Tags  Jennifer Wood   Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts   new chief of staff  

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New face at the DMV

11:31 AM Tue, Jul 22, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Andrea Panciera    Email

By Cynthia Needham Journal State House Bureau And speaking of new jobs, the state's sometimes beleaguered Division of Motor Vehicles has a new staffer. The agency announced Friday that Sara Rebecca "Sally" Strachan has been appointed associate director of Revenue......

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 Tags  DMV   DMV revenue services   Sara Rebecca Strachan  

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Saturday session means extra time off for State House workers

11:29 AM Tue, Jul 22, 2008 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Andrea Panciera    Email

By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau For some State House employees, the General Assembly's decision to wrap up the year during an unusual Saturday session was a bonanza. They didn't get overtime pay. But for every hour they worked......

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 Tags  General Assembly   last session   State House   workers' time off  

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