WASHINGTON, D.C. — His Excellency Sidney Collie, Bahamas Ambassador to the United States and Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS), accompanied by Bahamas Senator the Hon. Jamal Moss, met with Congressman Jim Langevin, Representative for Rhode Island’s 2nd Congressional District, at his Rayburn House Capitol Hill office on Wednesday, February 6, 2019.
Topics discussed included Cyberspace security and technical education.
Congressman Langevin, a Democrat, is the first quadriplegic to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was injured at the age of 16 while working with the Warwick, Rhode Island Police Department in the Boy Scout Explorer program when a gun accidentally discharged and he was struck by a bullet, leaving him paralyzed, according to the Library of Congress.
Langevin first ran for office in 1986, when he was elected a Delegate to Rhode Island’s Constitutional Convention and served as its secretary. Two years later, he won election to the Rhode Island House of Representatives. In 1994, Langevin became the nation’s youngest Secretary of State. He transformed the office into “the people’s partner in government” and took on the challenge of reforming Rhode Island’s outdated election system, also establishing the state’s Public Information Center.
In 1998, Langevin won re-election to his second term as Secretary of State, achieving the largest plurality of any general officer in this century, and in 2000, he made a successful run for the U.S. House of Representatives, where he has served the Second Congressional District of Rhode Island ever since.
In a post on his Facebook page, Senator Moss said he “is currently in Washington, D.C. attending a prayer breakfast and a forum on leadership,” adding that he “was invited by members of Capitol Hill to be their guests and to learn more about leadership.”
