A bipartisan group of lawmakers is asking congressional leaders to allow federal funds for grants to promote tourism in states and cities like Nevada and Las Vegas.
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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.
Lawmakers from the District of Columbia and Maryland are seeking the removal of a plaque honoring a former U.S. senator from Nevada who voiced ardent white supremacist views.
Nevada lawmakers joined governors and mayors seeking federal coronavirus aid for states and cities facing dire budget shortfalls.
Mark Menezes was overwhelmingly confirmed by the U.S. Senate to the No. 2 job at the Energy Department, despite opposition from Nevada’s U.S. senators.
A National Museum of the American Latino won a big victory last week, but work remains in the Senate, where companion legislation that passed the House has yet to be scheduled on a crammed legislative calendar.
Nevada Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen are among a group of bipartisan senators supporting a bill to get benefits for former employees of Air America.
A $1 trillion GOP coronavirus relief package drew fire from all quarters Tuesday as the leaders of a divided Republican caucus entered into negotiations with Democrats and the White House.
The Senate set up a clash with the White House with the passage of a $740 billion defense bill that would remove Confederate generals’ names from military bases and exclude the transfer of public lands in Nevada for military training.
States and local governments made a coordinated push for additional coronavirus relief on Thursday, but stark differences were still being debated among the House, Senate and President Trump.
A $740 billion defense bill passed by the House on Tuesday blocks the Air Force from using portions of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge for training.
Senate Republicans huddled with the White House on a $1 trillion coronavirus relief package Monday as lawmakers returned to empty Capitol Hill hallways.
Lawmakers are on a collision course to craft a fifth coronavirus relief package as deaths continue to mount, and the economy remains battered due to crippled businesses and closures.
A House panel approved a spending bill Monday that includes $27 million for interim storage of nuclear waste and no funds for a Yucca Mountain repository.
Two lawmakers from Nevada and Utah filed an amendment Friday to the defense bill that would prohibit the Defense Department from resuming nuclear weapons testing.
The Nevada congressional delegation is fighting an amendment brought by a Utah congressman that would allow the Air Force to access the Desert National Wildlife Refuge.