Issues
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Protecting Social Security & Medicare
Protecting Social Security and Medicare is so important to me that I co-founded a Senate caucus solely focused on defending Social Security – and now we’re working to expand benefits....
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Improving Health Care & Fighting the Opioid Epidemic
In the wealthiest country in the world, every single Rhode Islander should be able to get high-quality health care at a price they can afford. From introducing the public insurance...
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Defending Reproductive Freedom
When the right-wing justices on the Supreme Court followed the urging of far-right billionaires and overturned Roe v. Wade, it was a massive, life-altering setback for millions of women. I...
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Upgrading Infrastructure
This year, $300 million was at work in Rhode Island on projects funded by the INFRA Program I championed through the Environment and Public Works Committee: four massive job-creating projects...
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Fighting Climate Change
We see firsthand what increasingly extreme storms and rising sea levels mean for our coastal economy and way of life in the Ocean State. Rhode Island’s own Coastal Resources Management...
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Standing Up to Special Interests
The American people are fed up with dark money influence campaigns that allow billionaires and big corporations to blockade progress on essential needs like solving climate change, enacting commonsense gun...
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Safeguarding Justice & Democracy
I’m leading the effort to reform the Supreme Court and make the judicial branch more accountable, with a strong, binding code of ethics at the Supreme Court, term limits for...
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Creating Opportunity & Lowering Costs
America’s economy needs to work for the middle class. The American Dream rests on the promise that every child, regardless of the zip code where they were born, can get...
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Supporting Veterans
We can never fully repay the debt of gratitude we owe to servicemembers and military families who sacrifice so much for our nation. I am working hard to ensure our...
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Protecting National Security & Fixing the Immigration System
America is engaged in a clash of civilizations. Democracy and the rule of law are up against forces of autocracy and corruption on the march around the globe. Those forces...