Rhode Island Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse said President Trump does not represent the U.S. on climate matters because of ties to oil industry donors.

The Trump administration declined to send an official US delegation to the UN's major climate conference for the first time in 30 years.

A 60-40 vote taken in the Senate on Sunday, Nov. 10, advanced a plan that would reopen the government until Jan. 30, 2026, and fully fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, even ...

Rhode Island’s junior senator will be the Democratic speaker at the prestigious Gridiron Club’s winter dinner on Saturday.

In April 2012, Former President Barack Obama signed the STOCK Act into law. The act prohibits members of Congress from using ...

WASHINGTON (WPRI) — Rhode Island U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is making national headlines this week for hitting a milestone in his efforts to urge more action by Congress to address climate change.

Kennedy Center President Richard Grenell threw down the gauntlet over what he called Democratic Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse’s “careless” ...

Both of Rhode Island's senators voted against a stopgap funding bill to end the partial federal government shutdown on Oct. 15. That means the shutdown, which started Oct. 1, will continue. The ...

Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse ended up being the sole person representing the US federal government at a major climate change conference this past week.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse wants to give more certainty to the beleaguered offshore wind industry in any bipartisan permitting package — at a time when the Trump administration has sought to throttle the ...

At a Senate committee hearing, the attorney general avoided answering pointed queries by repeatedly laying into her questioners and casting her responses as a defense of the Trump administration. By ...