The resolution by Rosen, then a freshman legislator in the House, would enable Congress to defend the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that insurance companies provide coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.
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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 Gov. Brian Sandoval urged congressional leaders to ignore last-minute pleas to place language and funding in a year-end spending bill that could revive the license application process for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
The REDUCE Government Waste Act, which is seen as having little chance of passing, would target programs that allow repayment of loans with peanuts, subsidies for bug-based foods and grants to develop robotic bartenders.
Nevada cited health and environmental concerns in its motion Friday seeking to prevent the Trump administration from shipping a metric ton of weapons-grade plutonium from South Carolina to the Nevada National Security Site.
The clock is ticking on federal lawmakers who face a Friday deadline to craft a year-end spending bill that includes more money for President Donald Trump’s border wall — or face his threat of a partial government shutdown.
Nevada mourned the loss of George H.W. Bush on Saturday, a president who developed deep friendships and ties in the state and gave an emotional boost to a Las Vegas charitable organization that helps adults with intellectual disabilities.
George H.W. Bush, a patrician New Englander whose presidency soared with the coalition victory over Iraq in Kuwait, but then plummeted in the throes of a weak economy that led voters to turn him out of office after a single term, has died. He was 94.
A Nevada lawmaker urged House leaders not to allow any last-minute funding requests to be slipped into a final spending bill that would revive the licensing process for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain.
Nevada’s Sen. Dean Heller was recognized for his public service on Thursday by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who spoke about the Republican lawmaker’s legislative record and achievements during two terms in office.
House Democrats emerged from behind closed doors Wednesday with new party leaders for the 116th Congress.
Lawmakers return to work this week to wrap of the legislative year with a spending bill that President Donald Trump has vowed to veto if it doesn’t include border wall funding.
A federal helicopter roundup of wild horses in eastern Nevada will begin Monday, one of many that has drawn criticism in recent years by lawmakers who advocate for other means to reduce the number of the iconic animals on public lands in the West.
A House Ethics Committee report released Friday found that Rep. Ruben Kihuen of Nevada violated the congressional code of conduct with unwanted verbal and physical advances to two women during his campaign for Congress.
A diverse House freshman class gathered Wednesday on the steps of the Capitol for a bipartisan assembly and photograph before the lawmakers splinter into their respective party corners.
Jacky Rosen of Nevada and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, were in Senate chambers Tuesday with Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to usher in a new era of the “Women of the West.”
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