Sheldon Whitehouse News

A Superior Court judge ruled this week that the Newport City Council's rezoning of the area around the Eastbourne Lodge in 2006 violated state law because it did not conform to the city's comprehensive land-use ...

"Four Senate Democrats called on EPA chief Stephen Johnson to resign Tuesday, alleging that he gave misleading testimony to Congress and repeatedly bowed to pressure from the White House to avoid regulating ...

The Justice Department's inspector general reported this week that officials illegally stacked the decks with conservative attorneys who were sometimes unqualified.

Democratic senators are calling for a perjury investigation into comments made by the head of the Environmental Protection Agency.

DOJ IG: We found 'no sufficient basis for criminal prosecutions' against Goodling or Sampson.

A trio of Senate Democrats is pressing EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson to resign, saying he has repeatedly succumbed to political pressure on decisions vital to protecting health and the environment.

Mary Gade, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Midwestern regional office in Chicago, was pushed out after pushing Dow Chemical to clean up the mess it made in its hometown of Midland.

It's been two weeks since the Senate's cowardly vote to pass the FISA Amendments Act , caving in to the president's demands.

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on increasing coordination between state and federal governments concerning crimes associated polygamy.

It's been two weeks since the Senate's cowardly vote to pass the FISA Amendments Act , caving in to the president's demands.

Sky high gas prices are not caused by any one reason, but rather a complex puzzle of events that are all interconnected.

When Michael Mukasey became attorney general eight months ago, Democrats were hopeful that he would take an aggressive role in overhauling the Justice Department, which had become embroiled in various scandals ...

The U.S. Senate resumed debate today on legislation that would extend a controversial U.S. National Security Agency surveillance program targeting suspected terrorists, even as members of President George Bush ...

Capt. Paul Rice, ALPA's first vice president, took ALPA members' message to stabilize the price of fuel to Capitol Hill on June 26.

The Rhode Island Supreme Court yesterday brought an abrupt end to the state's nine-year campaign to force some of the nation's major corporations to clean up the lead-based paints that the state believes ...

In a recent column discussing our pain at the pump, I encouraged you to contact Sen.

Anthony Palazzolo, 87, fought all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2001 for the right to build 74 cottages on 18 acres of salt marsh between Atlantic Avenue and Winnapaug Pond in Misquamicut.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse , December 7, 2007: [L]ook what the Bush Administration does behind our backs when they think no one is looking.

In 2006, some applicants for sought-after jobs in the department honors program and summer intern program were rejected because they were members of the American Constitution Society or Planned Parenthood or ...

After growing up seeing how the rest of the world works, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is eager to export "the American way." But the Rhode Island Democrat, like other progressives in his party and unlike ...