LAS VEGAS, Nevada, April 11 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on April 10, 2023: U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) was joined by Las Vegas City Councilwoman Olivia Diaz, Las Vegas Fire and Rescue Chief Fernando Gray, and president of the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 1285 James Suarez, as she called on her Senate colleagues to pass the bipartisan Fire Grants and Safety Act, which would help provide robust funding to local fire departments in Nevad  more

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: In response to Senator Catherine Cortez Masto's (D-Nev.) call to update the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act to protect the privacy of women seeking reproductive care, the Biden Administration proposed a new rule to do just that, preventing the private medical information of women receiving abortions from being used against them. "I've been calling on the Biden administration to  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, April 15 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on April 14, 2023: U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) toured the Healthy Asians & Pacific Islanders (HAPI) Medical Center with Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community leaders to highlight her efforts to expand access to affordable health care for all Nevadans, including legislation she's leading to hold Big Pharma accountable and lower drug prices by penalizing drug com  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, April 15 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on April 14, 2023: Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined Senators Schumer, Murray, Durbin, Sanders, and Blumenthal and 253 total Members of Congress on an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, in support of the Biden administration's appeal of a federal district court ruling that suspends the Food and Drug Administration's (FD  more

RENO, Nevada, April 13 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) released the following statement in response to the White House designating xylazine an "emerging drug threat" through the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). "With xylazine continuing to spread across the country, this is an important first step that demonstrates the White House is committed to working with us to crack down on traffickers and   more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, April 13 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: Last week, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) visited with Mohammad "Benny" Shirzad, an Afghan interpreter for U.S. troops, and his family, who she helped bring to Las Vegas from Afghanistan following the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country. After learning about the danger from the Taliban the family was facing in Afghanistan, Cortez Masto successfully helped cut through re  more

RENO, Nevada, April 12 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on April 11, 2023: Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined Senators Schumer, Murray, Durbin, Sanders, and Blumenthal and 240 total Members of Congress--in submitting an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the case of Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, in support of the Biden administration's appeal of federal district court's ruling that suspends the Fo  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, April 14 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on April 13, 2023: U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) released the following statement praising the Biden administration for heeding her call to give Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients access to essential health care benefits through Obamacare and Medicaid eligibility. Despite paying taxes, DACA recipients have not been able to obtain health care from these c  more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on April 11, 2023: In Case You Missed It, Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) toured Aqua Metals' brand new Innovation Center in the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center (TRIC), highlighting Nevada's growing clean energy economy and the new jobs coming to the region. Senator Cortez Masto has been a champion for renewable and clean energy since first arriving in the Senate. Through her Innovation State   more

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on April 14, 2023: In Case You Missed It, Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) met with veterans community leaders and VA representatives in Las Vegas and Reno to highlight medical and disability benefits available to them through the PACT Act. Senator Cortez Masto has spent her career fighting for Nevada veterans. She wrote and passed the Brian Neuman Act to remove roadblocks for disabled veter  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, April 15 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on April 14, 2023: U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Congresswoman Susie Lee (D-NV-3) visited the Durango Hills YMCA Early Childhood Education Program to highlight the need to pass their Small Business Child Care Investment Act. This bipartisan, bicameral legislation would help increase the availability of affordable, high-quality child care to working families by allowing non-profit child care provid  more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on April 10, 2023: In Case You Missed It, Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined MSNBC's Inside with Jen Psaki to discuss the dire consequences of a federal judge in Texas ruling to limit access to the abortion pill across the country. Cortez Masto raised the alarm about far-right extremists' efforts to ban the abortion pill nationwide with earlier this year. "This is a concerted effort the  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, April 12 -- Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nevada, issued the following statement on April 11, 2023: * * * Today Congresswoman Dina Titus (NV-01), a member of the bipartisan Colorado River Caucus, issued the following statement after the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation released their draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for potentially revising the interim operating guidelines for water usage among Colorado River Basin states: "The Colorado River Basin's rapidly changing  more

WASHINGTON, April 15 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on April 13, 2023: U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) applauded news that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will expand Medicaid and Affordable Care Act coverage to include DACA recipients. "The thousands of DACA recipients living, working, paying taxes, and raising families in Nevada deserve access to affordable, quality health care coverage like everyone else. Thanks to today's announcement, Dre  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, April 14 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on April 13, 2023: U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) denounced the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to sharply limit access to the abortion medication Mifepristone, including blocking its distribution by mail and prohibiting its use beyond seven weeks. At the same time, the Appeals Court overturned the ruling by a Federal District Court Judge in Texas to stay approval of the dru  more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on April 11, 2023: U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) joined colleagues from both the House and Senate in an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit urging it to halt the dangerous Texas decision on abortion medication from taking effect. In the brief, the lawmakers express their support of the Department of Justice's appeal of the recent ruling by a district court judge in Texas that woul  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, April 12 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on April 11, 2023: U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) announced that more than $63 million in federal funds have been awarded to Nevada to improve the state's water infrastructure and ensure Nevadans have safe, reliable access to clean drinking water in their communities. The funding comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which Senators Rosen and Cortez Masto helpe  more