The freshman Democrat says assignment will enable her to make sure the VA is providing care and benefits “in the most effective way so that our veterans are cared for in a timely manner without abusing taxpayer dollars.”
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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 secret transfer of one-half metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium from South Carolina to the Nevada National Security Site, 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas, was revealed in a court filing Wednesday.
Weapons-grade plutonium was sent to a federal facility north of Las Vegas from South Carolina in November, before the Silver State filed a federal lawsuit to stop the shipment of the bomb-making material, the general counsel for the National Nuclear Security Administration disclosed in a court filing Wednesday.
Nevada congressional Democrats were elected Tuesday to serve on subcommittees with jurisdiction over programs and interests that could benefit the state.
President Donald Trump accepted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s invitation to deliver his State of the Union address in the Capitol on Feb. 5, now that the federal government is open for the first time in five weeks.
A group of bipartisan lawmakers, including Sen. Jacky Rosen of Nevada, was appointed to the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control to oversee federal efforts to battle the opioid epidemic.
President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats reached agreement Friday to reopen the shuttered government for three weeks while White House and Congress continue negotiation on the contentious issue of a border wall.
Rep. Dina Titus was elected by Democrats Thursday to serve as chairwoman of the House Transportation subcommittee on economic development, public buildings and emergency management — a position key to infrastructure improvements in Nevada.
House Democratic leaders assigned Nevada Rep. Steven Horsford to serve on the Natural Resources Committee, a rare assignment of a second committee for a freshman lawmaker already placed on the powerful, tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.
Dueling partisan bills — one to fund President Donald Trump’s border wall and a Democratic measure to reopen government for two weeks — failed in the Senate on Thursday.
Nevada Rep. Dina Titus said she will lead a House oversight investigation into President Donald Trump’s real estate holdings in the nation’s capital after an inspector general’s report found he failed to separate from his family business and profited from Trump International Hotel in the Old Post Office Building.
Nevada Rep. Susie Lee will serve on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, a panel that oversees health care benefits and services to thousands of vets in the Silver State.
Nevada Rep. Steven Horsford was selected Wednesday by the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee to serve as a representative on the House Budget Committee, which oversees investment of taxpayer dollars and budgeting.
Citing security concerns arising from the furlough of Secret Service personnel, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday called on President Donald Trump to put off his State of the Union speech this month — or deliver it in writing.
Democratic Rep. Susie Lee of Nevada will serve on the House Committee on Education and Labor, a panel she said she would use to improve public education in Nevada and “tackle skyrocketing student loan debt.”