David Cicilline: “An overwhelming majority of my constituents do not want this Congress to cut Federal initiatives that serve them.”

We must remember that child abduction is child abuse and it has devastating emotional, psychological, and even physical consequences for both abducted children and their families left behind.

What we’ve said to the General Assembly is you’re going to have to have a transition plan that takes that into account.

You can’t have a statewide school funding system that is fair to everyone — that’s equitable, that covers all costs of education, so that every student, no matter where they live, is treated the same, and every taxpayer treated the same —…

Secretly, I was always hoping I would be surprised it would move really quickly, but as a practical matter, I knew that was not the case.