LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Aug. 9 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on Aug. 8, 2023: Today, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the bipartisan Honoring Our Pact Act becoming law, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) urged all eligible veterans suffering from toxic exposure to file a claim ahead of the August 9th deadline to receive retroactive benefits backdated to the bill's signing. This bipartisan law has extended Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care and benefit  more

TONOPAH, Nevada, Aug. 12 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) announced that the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) have finalized a program she helped create in the Inflation Reduction Act to assist low-income and Tribal communities across Nevada access solar energy and lower costs. The final rules include changes Cortez Masto pushed for to simplify the program's  more

TONOPAH, Nevada, Aug. 12 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following statement on Aug. 11, 2023: * * * U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) released the following statement after her tour of Lyon, Mineral, Nye, and Esmeralda Counties, where she discussed her work to support Nevada's farmers and ranchers, protect rural communities from flooding, fund vital conservation efforts at Walker Lake, and bolster critical mineral development in the state. "From our family far  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Aug. 8 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), Congresswoman Doris Matsui (D-Calif.) and Congressman Bill Johnson (R-Ohio) introduced the Behavioral Health Information Technology (BHIT) Coordination Act to improve coordination of mental and physical health care by supporting behavioral health providers' efforts to adopt health information technology (IT) systems.  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Aug. 8 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) announced that the Washoe Tribe of Nevada & California will receive $1.3 million to modernize and strengthen their energy infrastructure and invest in clean energy. The funding comes from the Department of Energy's Grid Resilience State and Tribal Formula Grants program, which was created in the Bipartisan Infrastructure La  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: In Case You Missed It, after repeated advocacy from Senator Cortez Masto, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Affairs (HUD) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced streamlined and improved guidance for building affordable housing on federal land under the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act. Cortez Masto worked with local stakeholders and the Biden Administration to update this   more

EUREKA, Nevada, Aug. 11 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on Aug. 10, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) met with Eureka County officials to discuss the severe flooding the community experienced this spring and the federal funding they received to address it, as well as other county priorities. During the meeting, Senator Rosen highlighted the resources she pushed to secure to help mitigate the effects of the storms, and she highlighted the work she's do  more

ELY, Nevada, Aug. 12 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on Aug. 11, 2023: Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) was joined by leaders from the Ely Shoshone Tribe, the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe, and the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation in a visit to the proposed Bahsahwahbee National Monument site. During her visit, Senator Rosen also met with several key conservation, energy, tourism, and local government leaders to hear directly from a wide range of   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on Aug. 10, 2023: Today, U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) announced that more than $7.2 million in funding they secured to support Nevada law enforcement, first responders, and the justice system has now been delivered to communities across the state. The funding comes as a part of the Community Project Funding that both senators secured in the Fiscal Year 2023 bipartisan gover  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- The Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee issued the following information for a field hearing entitled "Cybersecurity: Challenges and Opportunities for Small Businesses" at 2:30 p.m. on Aug. 15, 2023, at National Cybersecurity Center, 3650 N. Nevada Avenue, Colorado Springs, Colorado: Witness Panel 1 * Mr. Kevin Stine, Chief of the Applied Cybersecurity Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Commerce, Gaithersburg, MD   more

RENO, Nevada, Aug. 11 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) announced the launch of an Electric Vehicle Working Group (EVWG) she created through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to create a national strategy to better promote and deploy electric vehicles and clean-energy technology while supporting the good-paying jobs these industries create. This group will include electric vehicle (EV) industry experts and l  more

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Aug. 9 -- Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada, issued the following news release on Aug. 7, 2023: Today, to mark the one-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act that she helped pass, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) visited Unimacts, a clean energy manufacturing company in Las Vegas that has directly benefited from this historic law. As a result of the Rosen-backed law, Unimacts has been able to move their production out of China and Mexico and back into the United States. In   more