LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Aug. 25 -- Rep. Susie Lee, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on Aug. 24, 2023: Today, Congresswoman Susie Lee (NV-03) held a roundtable discussion with local experts on child nutrition programs in southern Nevada. They emphasized the need to protect these critical programs from the dangerous funding cuts that extreme Republican politicians have proposed and threatened to shut down the federal government over. Nevada ranks 38th in the nation for children's health ge  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Aug. 26 -- Rep. Susie Lee, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on Aug. 25, 2023: Yesterday, Congresswoman Susie Lee (NV-03) traveled to Creech Air Force Base (AFB) to meet with base leadership and Airmen, tour the base's facilities, and discuss the challenges that Airmen regularly face. To address these challenges and empower Nevada Airmen and their families, Congresswoman Lee introduced the Creech Airmen Economic Security and Resilience Act this week. This legislatio  more

ELKO, Nevada, Aug. 25 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez (D-Nev.) joined the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and local firefighters for a tour of Lamoille Canyon five years after a devastating fire burned 9,000 acres in the area in 2018. Cortez Masto discussed her efforts to support federal firefighters and fund wildfire prevention and recovery programs across the state, including restoring Lamoille Canyon. She recently secured   more

LOVELOCK, Nevada, Aug. 23 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined USDA Rural Development Director Lucas Ingvoldstad, Lovelock Mayor Mike Giles, Pershing County Economic Development Authority Executive Director Heidi Lusby, Pershing County Commissioner Shayla Hudson, and representatives from Kromer Investments and Uprise Fiber in Lovelock to discuss her efforts to improve broadband access in rural Nevada, in  more

WINNEMUCCA, Nevada, Aug. 24 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) are calling on the Biden administration to prohibit oil and gas leasing in the Ruby Mountains and the neighboring Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge, also referred to as the "Ruby Marshes." In a letter to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the senators urged the administration to formally withdraw approximately 350,000 acres  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Aug. 22 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on Aug. 21, 2023: On Friday, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) held a press conference calling on the U.S. Department of Transportation to fund Nevada's application for federal funding to construct the Bright line West high-speed rail project, which will boost Nevada's tourism economy. She was joined by Bright line CEO Michael Reininger, Clark County Commissioner Michael Naft, Nevada Department of Transpor  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Aug. 26 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on Aug. 25, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), chair of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Tourism, Trade and Export Promotion, led a field hearing that examined ways to attract large sporting and entertainment events to the U.S., with a focus on Las Vegas' experience, and the impacts that sporting and live entertainment events have on the local economy. Witnesses for the hearing included CEO  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on Aug. 22, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) joined Representatives Kathy Manning (D-NC-06), Chris Smith (R-NJ-06), and Senator James Lankford (R-OK) in co-leading a bipartisan group of Members of Congress in a letter urging the U.S. Department of Education to take additional steps to counter antisemitism and protect Jewish students on college campuses. The letter also requests that the Department o  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Aug. 25 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on Aug. 24, 2023: Today, U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) announced $1.5 million in funding from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's (NTIA) Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program has been awarded to increase access to affordable, reliable high-speed internet for the Te-Moak Battle Mountain Band, South Fork Band Council, and Winnemucca Indian C  more

WINNEMUCCA, Nevada, Aug. 24 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on Aug. 23, 2023: U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) are calling on the Biden administration to prohibit oil and gas leasing in the Ruby Mountains and the neighboring Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge, also referred to as the "Ruby Marshes." In a letter to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the senators urged the administration to formally withdraw approximately 350,000 acr  more