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David Cicilline

State:Rhode Island
Current Office:U.S. Representative, 1st District
Party:Democratic Party

 

David Cicilline, formerly mayor of Providence, represents Rhode Island's First Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Cicilline was born in 1961 in the southside of Providence and later moved to Narragansett. 

He graduated from Brown University in 1983 with a degree in political science. He later graduated from Georgetown University Law Center and served as a public defender in Washington before moving back to Rhode Island.

Cicilline served in the Rhode Island General Assembly for four terms before being elected mayor of the capital city in 2002, and then elected to Congress in 2010.

 

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Committees

  • House Committee on Foreign Affairs
    • Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee
    • Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade Subcommittee
  • House Committee on Small Business
    • Subcommittee on Agriculture, Energy and Trade Subcommittee
    • Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access Subcommittee

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cisco_kid cisco_kid | Oct 5, 2011 3:10 PM

You cannot repair something with your hands tied! Let's empower him to make the right decisions. Remeber the motto, "Hope"

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Rhode Island (change)

 
Gov. Lincoln Chafee, the first independent in his position, has his work cut out for him: fix the state's finances and help 66,000 unemployed Rhode Islanders get back to work.
 
Offices & Officials

Governor: Lincoln Chafee
Lieutenant Governor: Elizabeth Roberts
Attorney General: Peter Kilmartin
State Treasurer: Gina Raimondo
Secretary of State: Ralph Mollis