WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: Ahead of the vote in the U.S. Senate, Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) led Senators Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Tom Carper (D-DE), and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) in an open letter opposing a Congressional resolution that would roll back a two-year pause on retroactive tariffs on solar panels and  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, May 4 -- Rep. Susie Lee, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Susie Lee (NV-03) announced that Nevada will receive nearly $4 million to help expand access to affordable housing through the nation's Housing Trust Fund. Nevada will be able to use these funds to increase and preserve the supply of affordable rental housing, especially for low-income households. "Across the valley, I hear story after story from my constituents who are seeing their rents inc  more

WASHINGTON, May 6 -- Rep. Susie Lee, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Susie Lee (NV-03) announced the introduction of bipartisan legislation to fund law enforcement, invest in officer safety and training, and help combat law enforcement staffing shortages. The Invest to Protect Act would provide funding to support specialized officer training, allocations for body cameras, grants for officer recruitment, and resources for officers pursuing education in social work and   more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Rep. Susie Lee, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on May 3, 2023: Congresswoman Susie Lee (D-NV), Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA), and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) led 22 of their colleagues in introducing the bipartisan, bicameral Solidify Iran Sanctions Act (SISA), to make permanent the sanctions established by the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996. A companion bill was introduced in the Senate by Senators Tim Scott (R-SC), Jacky Rosen (D-N  more

WASHINGTON, May 6 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on May 5, 2023: U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) reintroduced bipartisan legislation to increase access to funding for small law enforcement agencies in Nevada and across the country. The Invest to Protect Act would set aside $250 million to help local police invest in training, mental health support, and recruitment and retention. "Our law enforcement agencies  more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on May 1, 2023: U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), a member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, announced $2,470,439 in Head Start funding that she secured in the bipartisan government funding law for the Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada (ITNC). These funds, made available through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Head Start Indian Grants Program, will provide crit  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) cosponsored the bipartisan Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence (FEND) Off Fentanyl Act, along with Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Tim Scott (S.C.), to tackle the country's fentanyl epidemic by cracking down on transnational drug trafficking schemes. This bipartisan bill would strengthen current law by directing the Treasury Department to tar  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined Senators Schumer, Murray, Sanders, Durbin, Blumenthal, and a total of 253 members of Congress on an amicus brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the case of Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA, urging the Court to reverse the district court's stay on the FDA's more than 20-year-old approval of the abortion pill, mifepriston  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on May 2, 2023: U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) urged Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland to support the creation of the Bahsahwahbee (or Swamp Cedars) National Monument in Eastern Nevada at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing today. Bahsahwahbee is a site of extreme cultural and historical significance of Tribes in Nevada and is home to a sacred and ecologically-uni  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on May 3, 2023: U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) re-introduced bicameral legislation to protect consumers from energy market manipulation. The Energy Consumer Protection Act would provide the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) with additional authority to go after traders that repeatedly manipulate electricity and natural gas markets. Companion legisla  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on May 4, 2023: During a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) asked Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence, and Lieutenant General Scott D. Berrier, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, how the United States can respond to China's increasing involvement in global diplomatic matters and the threat that Beijing poses to U.S. national security. Senator Ros  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on May 2, 2023: During Small Business Week, U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced the Minority Entrepreneurship Grant Program Act. The bipartisan legislation would establish a Minority Entrepreneurship Grant Program through the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to award grants to Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to pr  more

WASHINGTON, May 6 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release and letters: During Small Business Week, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a member of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, announced she led more than a dozen of her colleagues in sending three letters to Senate Appropriators requesting funding for legal cannabis, nonprofit child care, and rural small businesses. The requests would provide $40 million for the Rural Business Development Grant   more

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on May 1, 2023: U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) announced that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Consumer Bureau) will heed her call and propose new consumer protections for homeowners who apply for Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) loans to help them make energy-efficient upgrades to their homes. While these loans can finance home-improvement projects, Senator Cortez Masto rai  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on May 3, 2023: During a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) called on her Senate colleagues from both parties to oppose a resolution that rolls back a two-year pause on tariffs on imported solar panels and cells, which would kill Nevada jobs and hurt American workers. Nevada has the most solar jobs per capita in the nation, and the threat of additional tariffs will decimate many of  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on May 2, 2023: In recent days, a wide array of national labor, environmental, and taxpayer advocacy groups have come out in opposition to a resolution that would roll back a two-year pause on tariffs on solar panels and cells. Currently, American solar manufacturing can only meet 15 percent of domestic demand, and this pause was put in place as a bridge to allow U.S. domestic manufacturing capacity to ramp up. U  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: On the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) condemned a resolution to reinstate solar tariffs that would kill clean energy jobs in Nevada and across the country. Cortez Masto has led efforts to support the solar industry and the clean energy jobs it creates. She secured vital extensions of the investment tax credit and the residential renewable energy tax credit in 2020 to boost  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on May 2, 2023: U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) helped introduce the bipartisan Medical Student Education Authorize Act with Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) to address the nation's doctor shortage by expanding the Medical Student Education (MSE) Program. The MSE Program provides federal grants to public institutions of higher education to support graduate education for physicians in states with the most severe pr  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on May 4, 2023: U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen helped introduce the Child Care for Working Families Act, comprehensive legislation to address the shortage of affordable child care providers and pre-K programs in Nevada and across the United States. The bill would help to lower the cost of child care for families, provide grants to cover start-up costs for new child care providers, support a living wage for child care s  more

WASHINGTON, May 5 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on May 4, 2023: U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Representatives Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA-6) and Pat Fallon (R-TX-4) introduced the Investing in American Defense Technologies Act to establish a federal public-private partnership to scale, support, and invest in American defense-centric small businesses producing advanced capabilities, including hypersonics, space, and autonomous syst  more

WASHINGTON, May 4 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Congresswoman Susie Lee (NV-03) joined their colleagues in the Senate and House of Representatives in introducing the Solidify Iran Sanctions Act (SISA) to make permanent the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996. This bipartisan legislation would keep in place provisions allowing the President to impose sanctions on Iran's energy sectors by removing sunset provisions from the original A  more

WASHINGTON, May 6 -- Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on May 5, 2023: Today Congresswoman Dina Titus (D-NV) and Congressman Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA), Co-Chairs of the bipartisan Congressional Gaming Caucus, reintroduced the Shifting Limits on Thresholds (SLOT) Act, legislation that would update the nearly 50-year-old reporting threshold for slot machine winnings by raising it from $1,200 to $5,000 and indexing it to inflation. While slot jackpots have increased over  more

WASHINGTON, May 3 -- Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on May 2, 2023: Today Congresswoman Dina Titus (NV-01) and Rep. Tom Cole (OK-04) reintroduced the bipartisan, bicameral Medical Student Education Authorization Act to help address primary care provider shortages by authorizing the Medical Student Education (MSE) Program through Fiscal Year 2025. Currently Nevada is facing a physician shortage, ranking 48th nationally in shortages of primary care doctors. In state  more