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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau WASHINGTON -- As the military's top civilian and uniformed leaders continued Thursday to defend and explain President Obama's new Afghanistan strategy, Rep. James R. Langevin posed a question about the plan that has weighed on him since Mr. Obama announced it Tuesday night. How is it that the rise in the Taliban's fortunes seems to have tracked with...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Doug Mills / The New York Times By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON _ Sen. Jack Reed defended President Obama's new Afghanistan strategy Wednesday from critics on the right and elicited from key administration leaders testimony that might reassure critics of the policy on the left. "By mid-2011 we...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. Jack Reed was on hand Tuesday morning at the White House as President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama welcomed Prime Minister Singh of India and India's first lady, Gursharan Kaur, flanked by a cast of hundreds. The star-studded crowd in the East Room ran the gamut from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to actor...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau WASHINGTON _ Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse assailed Republicans for "refusing to show up for work'' on the global warming bill that Democrats pushed through a key Senate committee Thursday with only one dissenting vote. The Rhode Island Democrat said in a news release that California Sen. Barbara Boxer , chairwoman of the Committee on Environment...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
By Amanda Milkovits By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Narragansett Indian Chief Sachem Matthew Thomas is at the grand auditorium of the Interior Department Thursday with representatives of more than 500 Native American tribes for a meeting with President Obama. "This is very important, very historic that the president is taking time out to sit with...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau WASHINGTON _ On the eve of a presidential gathering with tribes from around the country, the Obama administration has detailed its support for congressional action to reverse a Supreme Court ruling that denied the Narragansett Indians a special status for land they own in Charlestown. At the same time, however, Connecticut's attorney general warned...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... rights in Rhode Island unless state officials, including the congressional delegation, agree to it.John E. Mulligan
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
By John E. Mulligan, Washington bureau WASHINGTON -- Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy and Providence Bishop Thomas J. Tobin have agreed to meet on Nov. 12 to discuss legislation to retool the nation's medical system, and abortion-related aspects of the measure that have embroiled the two in a heated public debate. In an interview about two weeks ago, Kennedy sharply attacked the nation's Catholic...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
By News staff By JOHN E. MULLIGAN Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy has accepted Providence Bishop Thomas J. Tobin's invitation to meet for a discussion of a proposed overhaul of the nation's medical system -- and its implications for abortion policy. In a letter delivered Thursday to the leader of the Roman Catholic diocese, Kennedy said his comments on...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... Army Sgt. Raymundo Esteves of Pawtucket; and Army Sgt. SFC Martin Cortese of Waterbury, Conn. By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, D.C. -- It's not unusual during an overseas fact-finding tour to run into a Rhode Islander in uniform here and there, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse said this week after a brief visit to Afghanistan . But his tour of the war-torn nation last...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
By Donita Naylor By JOHN E. MULLIGAN Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. James R. Langevin on Wednesday endorsed the House Democratic leadership's new compromise legislation to overhaul the nation's medical system, even though its version of the government-run insurance option is weaker than what he and other liberals had initially sought. "There are many ways of getting...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
By News staff By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy has strongly endorsed the proposed overhaul of the medical system that was unveiled Thursday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and fellow Democrats. Like fellow-Rhode Island Rep. James R. Langevin, Kennedy defended the compromise that Pelosi and other party leaders struck...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
By News staff By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau WASHINGTON -- Rep. James R. Langevin and Sen. Jack Reed plan to be among the legislators on hand in the White House Rose Garden Wednesday when President Obama signs a $680-billion Pentagon budget blueprint for next year that cuts a number of weapons-buying programs but presses ahead with plans to step up production of the Virginia-class...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
By News staff By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington Bureau In the wake of their recent, sharp exchange on health care policy and abortion, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Providence has invited Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy to discuss with him legislation to overhaul the nation's medical system. Bishop Thomas J. Tobin, in a letter dated Tuesday and made public Wednesday, spoke of what he called...
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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
By News staff By John E. Mulligan WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Back from a brief fact-finding tour of Afghanistan, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse said Monday that he was struck by the continued high levels of "morale and enthusiasm and confidence'' of U.S. forces in their mission -- even as President Obama and his top advisors continue to debate whether to add tens of thousands of troops to the...
