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Reed & Amo Deliver $850,000 for Boys & Girls Club of Northern RI’s Cumberland-Lincoln Clubhouse Renovation
August 5, 2024

CUMBERLAND, RI – In an effort to help the Boys & Girls Club of Northern Rhode Island continue to strengthen and expand programming and services for local youth, U.S. Senator Jack Reed and Congressman Gabe Amo teamed up to deliver an $850,000 federal earmark to support a renovation project at the Cumberland-Lincoln Clubhouse and Grounds. 

August 5, 2024

WASHINGTON, DC – For over five decades, Rhode Island Legal Services (RILS) has provided critical, comprehensive legal services to victims of domestic and intimate partner violence.

August 2, 2024

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressmen Seth Magaziner and Gabe Amo today announced that three Rhode Island organizations are set to receive $134,000 in federal grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services’ (IMLS) Inspire! Grants for Small Museums program.

August 1, 2024

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Gabe Amo (RI-01), a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, released the following statement:

July 31, 2024

PROVIDENCE, RI – Leading researchers from the University of Rhode Island (URI) and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) are rethinking approaches to climate change impacts, adaptation, and resilience.  Thanks to over $3.4 million in new federal funding, these leading Ocean State institutions will partner with other research universities on ambitious, multidisciplinary four-year projects to develop strategies to enhance community resilience to climate change.

July 30, 2024
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressmen Tom Kean, Jr. (NJ-07) and Gabe Amo (RI-01), introduced the Literacy in Future Technologies (LIFT) Artificial Intelligence Act, a bipartisan bill to improve artificial intelligence literacy for K-12.  
July 29, 2024
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Gabe Amo (RI-01) sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power in support of dedicated funding for Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF).
July 26, 2024

Washington, DC – U.S. Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse and Congressmen Seth Magaziner and Gabe Amo today announced $1,999,777 in federal funding for the Aquidneck Land Trust under the Climate Resilience Regional Challenge.

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Rhode Island’s congressmen recognizing Mr. Huntley’s legacy as a stalwart community leader and nonviolence advocate
July 25, 2024
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Gabe Amo (RI-01) and Representative Seth Magaziner (RI-02) spoke on the House Floor in honor of Mr. Cedric Paul Huntley, a devoted public servant and longtime champion for Rhode Island who sadly passed away on July 10, 2024 and was honored with a memorial service and procession in Providence on July 19, 2024.
July 22, 2024
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Gabe Amo (RI-01) voted to pass the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2024, essential legislation that advances his priorities to strengthen flood protection, bolster resiliency, and invest in wastewater and stormwater infrastructure.