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November 13, 2024
NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI -- Highlighting the importance of well-maintained port infrastructure, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressmen Seth Magaziner and Gabe Amo today announced $11.25 million in new federal funding for the Port of Davisville at Quonset Point through the Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP).  The Quonset Development Corporation (QDC) will use the federal funding, which was made possible through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, to move forward with its Project GUARD: Gateway Upgrades for Access, Resilience & Development.
November 7, 2024
Following a multi-day, statewide tour late last month, Representative Gabe Amo (D-R.I. 1) announced new legislation that would support Rhode Island’s emerging “blue economy.”
October 31, 2024
Providence, RI – U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressman Gabe Amo joined with Mayor Brett Smiley and SAMHSA Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use Miriam Delphin-Rittmon to highlight a new $2.3 million federal First Responders - Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (FR-CARA) grant to support the City’s comprehensive strategy to improve first responders’ ability to save lives.  Whitehouse authored CARA, which is the primary law guiding the federal response to the opioid epidemic.
October 31, 2024

BOSTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management has been selected to receive $306,441 in grants to provide technical assistance to businesses to develop and adopt pollution prevention (P2) practices in local communities. 

October 31, 2024

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Gabe Amo (RI-01) announced Rhode Island was awarded $24,063,792 in funding for LIHEAP administered through the Administration for Children and Families’ Office of Community Services at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This funding will help individuals and families with low incomes pay their home heating costs this winter, and with cooling bills in the summer.

October 29, 2024

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Gabe Amo (RI-01) urged the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina M. Khan to help prevent elder fraud in Rhode Island. In the letter, Congressman Amo highlights that Rhode Island is one of ten states to see the largest increase in elder fraud between 2022 and 2023.

October 29, 2024
PAWTUCKET, RI – Highlighting the importance of well-maintained rail networks, U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressmen Seth Magaziner and Gabe Amo today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation will award $19,524,497 to upgrade key segments of freight rail tracks owned by Providence & Worcester Railroad (P&W) and New England Central Railroad (NECR).
October 29, 2024

PROVIDENCE, RI – In an effort to improve public safety and help better protect vulnerable faith-based institutions and nonprofits, Rhode Island’s Congressional delegation delivered a significant boost in homeland security funding and is urging local nonprofits and faith-based institutions to apply for federal funds under the

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Congressman Gabe Amo
October 25, 2024
Back home in Rhode Island, U.S. Rep. Gabe Amo recently took to the road again – this time to highlight the state's "blue economy."
October 25, 2024

Pawtucket, RI – Today, Congressman Gabe Amo (RI-01) concluded his Blue Economy tour of Rhode Island’s First Congressional District and introduced critical new legislation as the capstone.