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June 23, 2025
Washington, D.C. – House Foreign Affairs Committee Vice Ranking Member Gabe Amo (D-RI) joined House Foreign Affairs East Asia and the Pacific Subcommittee Ranking Member Ami Bera (D-CA), House Foreign Affairs Members Congressman Johnny Olszewski (D-MD), Congresswoman Sarah McBride (D-DE), and Congresswoman Julie Johnson (D-TX), and House Armed Services Committee Member Congressman Wesley Bell (D-MO), on a mission to Taiwan to strengthen diplomatic and economic ties.
June 18, 2025
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Gabe Amo (D-RI), along with Congressmen Daniel Goldman (D-NY) and Maxwell Frost (D-FL) introduced the Firearm Destruction Licensure Act, legislation to close a gun loophole that is allowing firearms designated for destruction to be sold back into American communities and potentially into the hands of bad actors.
June 16, 2025
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Gabe Amo (D-RI), Assistant Leader Neguse (D-CO), and Gun Violence Prevention Task Force Chair Mike Thompson (D-CA) led over 60 members of the Democratic Caucus in sending a letter to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, urging them to remove language that eliminates excise taxes on firearm silencers and deregulates their use under the National Firearms Act currently included in the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”
June 14, 2025
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Gabe Amo (D-RI) and Congressman Seth Moulton (D-MA) introduced a resolution to establish “Vets Get Outside Day” to support veterans struggling with mental health challenges. Nearly 460,000 veterans were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries between 2020 and 2022, and there were 6,146 veteran suicide deaths in 2020.
June 13, 2025
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Gabe Amo (D-RI) and Congressman Stephen Lynch (D-MA) are calling on the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to study relocating the Air Traffic Safety Oversight Service (AOV). To improve the safety of our national airspace system, this review would explore if AOV realignment could strengthen the independence and effectiveness of safety oversight of the air traffic control system.
June 13, 2025
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Ranking Members Gabe Amo (D-RI) and Emilia Sykes (D-OH) led 64 Democratic colleagues in calling on the Acting National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Administrator Laura Grimm to reinstate the Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Report to ensure America has a record of the increasing number of storms that cause catastrophic financial damage to communities.
June 12, 2025
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Gabe Amo (D-RI) and Congressman Ron Estes (R-KS) are calling on the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Acting Inspector General Mitch Behm to audit the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) oversight of airspace operations at Washington National Airport (DCA) following the horrific mid-air crash of a passenger jet and U.S. Army helicopter on January 29, 2025.
May 23, 2025
Washington, D.C. – Today, Representatives Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA-10), Don Beyer (D-VA-8), and Gabe Amo (D-RI-1) led 16 of their colleagues in requesting that the Department of Transportation (DOT) facilitate an independent review of Washington, DC airspace as part of the Appropriations Committee’s Fiscal Year 2026 transportation funding bill.
May 22, 2025
WASHINGTON, DC – House Foreign Affairs Vice Ranking Member Gabe Amo (D-RI), introduced the Reaffirming Unified Boundaries for Integrity and Oversight or R.U.B.I.O. Act to prohibit the Secretary of State from taking on additional roles in the Federal government while serving as Secretary.
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May 21, 2025
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, House Foreign Affairs Vice Ranking Member Gabe Amo (D-RI), demanded Secretary of State Marco Rubio commit to fund the production, transportation, and distribution of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) aid to keep starving children from dying. Until recently, over 123,000 boxes of RUTF purchased for Sudan were sitting in Rhode Island’s Edesia Nutrition warehouse because of State Department inflicted delays. Another 185,000 boxes of RUTFs purchased by the U.S. Government still sit in Edesia warehouses undistributed.