President Biden and the first lady hit the road to sell his $4 trillion jobs and families plans in states and cities like Las Vegas where Dr. Jill Biden will appear Wednesday.
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Gary Martin is the Washington correspondent for the Review-Journal covering Congress. He previously served as political and government editor for the San Antonio Express-News. He has worked at newspapers in Texas and Arizona. Martin received a journalism degree from Colorado State University.
The Biden administration’s creation of a commission to focus on violence against Indigenous women was the focus of a roundtable with tribal leaders and law enforcement from Nevada.
In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Joe Biden urged a $1.8 trillion investment in children, families and education that would fundamentally transform roles the government plays in American life.
Security concerns and pandemic rules will drastically reduce the audience in the House chamber for President Joe Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday.
Nevada didn’t gain or lose a congressional seat, but new population figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Monday showed a political shift from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt.
An attempt to reform gun laws and strengthen background checks appears to have stalled in the Senate as the country grapples with recurring mass shootings.
The House on Tuesday passed a bill by Rep. Dina Titus of Nevada to diversify the Department of Homeland Security workforce so it will better represent the nation’s ethnic makeup.
President Joe Biden met with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus on Tuesday to discuss pressing issues that included immigration and components of the recently enacted coronavirus package.
An environmental group filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking protection for 19 species in numerous states under the Endangered Species Act, including the Las Vegas bearpoppy and the Mojave poppy bee in Nevada.
A group of Democratic lawmakers filed a bill Wednesday to ban high-capacity ammunition magazines that have been used in most mass shootings including the Oct. 1 tragedy in Las Vegas.
A federal judge on Tuesday denied pretrial release to a man arrested in Las Vegas who posted video of himself smoking marijuana in the Capitol Rotunda during the violent Jan. 6 insurrection.
President Joe Biden met with lawmakers Monday to seek support for his $2 trillion infrastructure and jobs bill.
Congress returns from a break this week to confront issues including improved security at the Capitol, President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill and taxes.
A man with Las Vegas ties who filmed himself smoking a joint of marijuana in the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection is seeking release from District of Columbia jail.
Citing the surge of student suicides in Las Vegas, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto urged two federal agencies to tap into a pot of $122.7 billion for schools in the recently passed coronavirus rescue plan to launch a coordinated effort to curb the alarming deaths.
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