President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Justice Department, William Barr, told a Senate committee Tuesday that he would not use enforcement federal laws on cannabis in states that have passed laws on recreational and medical use.
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Senate Democrats filed a resolution Tuesday that would allow Congress to intervene in a federal court case in Texas to defend the Affordable Care Act and secure protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
U.S. Attorney General nominee William Barr told a Senate committee Tuesday that he would not interfere with a special counsel investigation into Russian meddling and ties to the Trump presidential campaign in the last presidential election.
President Donald Trump closed the door Monday on a Republican proposal to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history as Congress appears no closer to crafting a compromise that lawmakers and the White House could accept.
Sen. Lamar Alexander will again serve as chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on energy and said this week that the 30-year impasse on storing nuclear waste from power plants should be addressed in this Congress.
Former Sen. Harry Reid doubled down Thursday on President Donald Trump, calling him a man with “no conscience” for his insistence to build a Southwest border wall and for shutting down the government over the demand.
President Donald Trump walked out of a White House meeting with Democratic leaders on Wednesday when they would not agree to fund his border wall — extending the government shutdown and making it likely hundreds of thousands of federal workers will go without a paycheck this week.
Nevada Rep. Steven Horsford was selected to serve by Democratic leaders Wednesday on the powerful, tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, with jurisdiction over Social Security and Medicare.
As President Donald Trump appealed to the public to support his request for border wall funding, the second-longest government shutdown ended its 18th day and left thousands of federal workers — including 3,500 in Nevada — worried about paychecks.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled a bipartisan bill Tuesday that would expand background checks for gun sales — the first gun control bill in the new House and a top priority for Democrats, including those from Nevada who vividly remember the mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.
Lawmakers in Nevada’s congressional delegation are prepared to get to work on issues specific to the state, including filling federal judicial vacancies and keeping the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project mothballed.
Nevada’s lawsuit to halt a court-ordered shipment of military-grade plutonium from South Carolina to a national security site north of Las Vegas will get a hearing later this month in federal district court in Reno.
President Donald Trump confirmed Friday that he warned Democratic leaders that the partial government shutdown now in its 14th day could last for months, even a year.
Museums and the National Zoo closed their doors Wednesday due to the government shutdown as congressional leaders and President Donald Trump squabbled over his demand for border wall funds and failed to find a compromise that could end the impasse.
The Senate confirmed Nicholas Trutanich to be the U.S. attorney in Nevada on Wednesday, one of the last actions in the 115th Congress.