Members of Congress from Nevada complained that the Senate hasn’t taken up legislation passed by the House aimed at preventing future mass shootings.
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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.
Nevada representatives from both parties say they want the investigations into President Trump to continue so Congress can determine if any laws or rules were broken.
A bill by Rep. Dina Titus that would require airports, including McCarran in Las Vegas, to post signs in languages other than English passed the House on Thursday.
It would allow the Energy Department to prepare Yucca Mountain to store nuclear waste, but the House nor Senate budgets include funding for the project.
Nevada’s members of Congress said an investigation into a whistleblower’s allegations against President Trump should continue, as their colleagues grilled Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire about the matter Thursday.
House Democrats accused President Donald Trump of abusing his power during a phone call with the president of the Ukraine, while Republicans downplayed allegations of wrongdoing.
Rep. Dina Titus held her first subcommittee hearing into President Donald Trump’s lease of a government-owned building in downtown Washington, D.C., for his International Hotel.
Reps. Steven Horsford and Susie Lee, both Democrats, said Tuesday they back a House impeachment inquiry into the president, which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced today.
House Democrats unveiled a bill to control the costs of prescription drugs, but Republicans criticized it as the first step in nationalizing the pharmaceutical industry.
Nevada Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen are forming a bipartisan, biregional commission in Nevada to select future nominees for the federal bench to recommend to the president.
Nevada Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen are asking congressional leaders to restore funds cut from a 2015 transportation bill that could pay for projects including Interstate 11.
Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski proved to be a combative witness on Tuesday, the first day of a House impeachment inquiry.
Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto focused on solutions to gun violence and called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to pass a background check bill.
A Senate committee approved an Energy Department spending bill without any money to revive the stalled Yucca Mountain nuclear repository project.
Las Vegas business leaders have joined with their counterparts from Arizona to advocate for federal money for Interstate 11, the highway running through Las Vegas that will one day connect Canada, the United States and Mexico.
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