The confirmation process for federal judicial nominees has turned into a scorched earth battle fueled by character assassination and innuendo coming from faceless, nameless partisan critics who can never be held accountable. This was evident once again this past week as former Nevada Solicitor General Lawrence VanDyke, who has been nominated for a seat on the 9th U.S. … [Read more...]
Senator Visits Southern Border
This weekend, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) visited the southern border, met with immigrant and refugee rights advocates and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents, participated in a line tour, and visited the Nogales-DeConcini Port of Entry. During the Senator’s visit to Southern Arizona, she toured the Southwest Key Estrella shelter, where unaccompanied … [Read more...]
Supporting the Mental Health of Nevada’s Rural Communities
By Senator Catherine Cortez Masto America is facing a public health crisis as health providers in communities across the country report increasing rates of suicide and mental illness diagnoses. A Center for Disease Control report released this June stated that suicide rates are on the rise across the country, particularly in rural communities. Nevada has much more work to do … [Read more...]
Distance Learning Connects Rural Communities
By Senator Catherine Cortez Masto Nevada’s small towns and rural communities are home to some of our state’s most inspiring students. Yet, for many young men and women in Nevada’s rural and underserved communities, more needs to be done to tear down barriers to high-quality education and to provide crucial resources to help students thrive. That is why it has been one of my … [Read more...]
Nevada Democrats Urge Republicans to Take Gun Action After Latest Mass Shooting
By Humberto Sanchez, The Nevada Independent While Nevada’s Congressional delegation voiced its sorrow following the shooting that took place at a South Florida high school this week, some Democrats used the incident to urge House and Senate GOP leaders to take action. “How many more of these senseless shootings [must] we see before this Congress enacts common sense gun … [Read more...]
U.S. Senator vows to fight for rural communities
U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto calls Las Vegas home, but still feels a deep connection with the state’s rural communities. As a lifelong Nevadan, Cortez Masto grew up in a Las Vegas that was very different from the urban atmosphere it now projects. “I was born and raised in Las Vegas, but let me tell you that it was more rural then than it is now,” she said in a recent … [Read more...]
New senator wants to shred First Amendment protection
Nevada’s newly elected U.S. senator, Catherine Cortez Masto, has already taken up the cudgel against the First Amendment previously wielded by her predecessor, Harry Reid. She put out a press release recently announcing that she has joined with other congressional Democrats to reintroduce a constitutional amendment that would overturn Supreme Court rulings that have held … [Read more...]