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March 6, 2024
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Gabe Amo (D-RI-01) voted in support of six fiscal year 2024 appropriations bills that include $20,075,769 in federal Community Project Funding for Rhode Island’s First Congressional District.
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THE CITY OF NEWPORT will receive $5 million in federal funds to support repairs to its Cliff Walk, which partially collapsed in 2022. Rhode Island is expected to get more than $32 million in federal funding to finance 29 community projects across the state. / COURTESY SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY VIA AP
March 6, 2024
PROVIDENCE – The state is expected to receive more than $32 million in federal funding to support 29 community projects across Rhode Island, including repairs to an iconic oceanside attraction in Newport.
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Congressman Gabe Amo
March 4, 2024
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Rhode Island’s newest member of Congress is wading into foreign policy with his first major legislative initiative.
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Photo courtesy of Executive Office of the President of the United States/Wikimedia Commons
March 1, 2024

This month, Congressman Gabe Amo’s (D-R.I. 1) legislative agenda has included bills on foreign affairs, infrastructural funding and government shutdown prevention. The Herald reviewed legislation introduced, supported or discussed by Amo in February. 

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February 29, 2024
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Amo voted in favor of H.R. 7463, the Extension of Continuing Appropriations and Other Matters Act, 2024, a short-term funding bill to avert a looming partial government shutdown.
February 29, 2024
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Representatives Gabe Amo (RI-01) and Seth Magaziner (RI-02) spoke on the House floor to condemn an attack on the Shiloh Gospel Temple, a predominantly Black church in North Providence, and stand in solidarity with Rhode Island’s Black community.
February 27, 2024
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Gabe Amo (RI-01) announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provided $586,431 in federal funding to help homeless veterans and their families find permanent housing.
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U.S. REP. GABE AMO, D-R.I., announced Tuesday that R.I. Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp. and the North Providence Housing Authority will receive $586,431 in combined federal funding to help homeless veterans and their families find permanent housing. / COURTESY GABE AMO
February 27, 2024
PROVIDENCE – Two local housing authorities will receive $586,431 in combined federal funding to help homeless military veterans and their families find permanent housing.
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Congressman Gabe Amo
February 27, 2024
US Representative Gabe Amo was a bite-and-a-half into his Buffalo chicken wrap from Gregg’s on North Main Street in Providence when he offered a profound takeaway from his recent trip to the Munich Security Conference and his role on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
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Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
February 26, 2024
For freshly elected U.S. Representative Gabe Amo (D-RI-01), the first Black congressman to represent Rhode Island, mending the broken trust of the American people requires civic engagement which “demands optimism from all of us who desire a better world.” 
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