Congressman David N. Congressman Cicilline serves Rhode Island’s First Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Cicilline is a leader in Congress on issues of core American values, ensuring equitable access to economic opportunity, sustaining and growing our manufacturing sector, promoting equality for all, protecting the rights of workers, and safeguarding the ability of older Americans to retire with dignity.
Congressman Cicilline is currently leading efforts to combat price gouging and inflation, implement gun safety legislation on the federal level, and pass the first piece of antitrust legislation of the modern era to ensure a fair and competitive online marketplace for startups, consumers, and small businesses. As a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Congressman Cicilline recently visited Ukraine and the Polish-Ukrainian border and is working to ensure that Ukraine has the economic and security support it needs to fight against Putin’s illegal and unwarranted invasion and defend its democracy.
Congressman Cicilline is a leader in the House on gun reform and gun safety. In 2016, with the late, great John Lewis, and in partnership with Representatives Robin Kelly, John Larson, and Katherine Clark, the Congressman organized the House sit-in for gun violence prevention. The Congressman currently serves as a Vice Chair of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force in the House and was a founding member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns when he was Mayor of Providence.
He is the sponsor of the Assault Weapons Ban, the Untraceable Firearms Act – which is part of the Protecting Our Kids Act of 2022, the Disarm Hate Act, the Unlawful Gun Buyer Alert Act, and the Fire Sale Loophole Closing Act.