WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nevada, issued the following statement on June 30, 2023: * * * Congressman Mark Amodei (NV-02) made the following statement after the Supreme Court ruled against President Biden's plan to forgive $430 billion in student loans. "Today, the Supreme Court made the correct decision. President Biden never had the legal authority to unilaterally 'forgive' student loan debt, and attempting to do so was nothing more than a desperate political stunt to buy vot  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- Rep. Susie Lee, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on June 26, 2023: Today, Congresswoman Susie Lee (NV-03) released the following statement to mark the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision, which overturned nearly 50 years of precedent settled by Roe v. Wade, decimating a woman's right to choose in states across the country: "Since Roe v. Wade was overturned last year, we have witnessed states ban or drastically restrict women's access to abortion. Extrem  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on June 26, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) announced that $416,666,229.74 in federal funding is coming to Nevada to expand broadband access in communities across the state through the Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program. Senator Cortez Masto helped to secure these funds through the Bipartisan Inf  more

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nevada, June 30 -- Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nevada, issued the following statement on June 29, 2023: * * * Today, Congressman Steven Horsford (NV-04) responded to the Supreme Court decision, 6-3, to gut the ability of private and public colleges and universities to consider race and ethnicity in admission decisions: "Today's decision underscores the realities that exist in our society that many, as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said in her dissent, would rather 'ostrich-like'   more

WASHINGTON, June 30 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) helped introduce the Working Families Tax Relief Act to help lower taxes for Nevada families by expanding the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit. Senator Rosen was part of the initial push to expand these tax credits for working Nevada families, and she helped pass an enhanced Child Tax Credit as part of the American Rescue Plan Act. "At a time when Nevadans are faci  more

WASHINGTON, July 1 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on June 30, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen, co-founder and co-chair of the bipartisan Senate Comprehensive Care Caucus, announced the introduction of a pair of bipartisan bills to help increase the number of doctors trained in palliative care, and to improve hospice care for patients by increasing access to blood transfusions for those who rely on this care to maintain quality of life. The Provider Train  more

WASHINGTON, June 27 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on June 26, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) announced she secured more than $416 million to expand access to high-speed internet across Nevada. The funding comes from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law's $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program, which Senator Rosen helped create to provide funding to states to build broadband infrastructure. Last month, Senator Rosen succe  more

WASHINGTON, June 29 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on June 28, 2023: Today, U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) announced Nevada has been awarded $10.5 million to help modernize and strengthen the state's energy grid with affordable, reliable clean energy. The funding comes from the Department of Energy's Grid Resilience State and Tribal Formula Grants program, which was created in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that Senators R  more

WASHINGTON, June 30 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on June 29, 2023: Today, U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) announced that the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone has been awarded $500,000 from the Tribal Broadband Connection Program to help deploy high-speed internet services. Funds for the program came from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that Senators Rosen and Cortez Masto helped pass into law. "Having access to the inter  more