Newsletter from Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto

Fellow Nevadans, I’m proud to announce the Treasury Department’s release of $17.9 million in downpayment assistance for Southern Nevada homebuyers in zip codes hardest hit by foreclosures. These new grants help nearly 1,000 families with modest incomes buy a home and will

Statement from Speaker Pelosi & Leader Schumer

Attorney General Barr Deliberately Distorted Significant Portions Of Special Counsel Mueller’s Report APRIL 18, 2019 Washington, D.C. – Today, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer released the following joint statement. “What we’ve learned today is that Attorney General

States Rights: Marijuana and the Cole Memorandum

— by Senator Catherine Cortez-Masto NV voters have spoken: Marijuana must be regulated & taxed, & NV ought to enforce its marijuana laws without federal interference. Today, I joined @SenWarren on a bipartisan letter urging @POTUS to direct AG Sessions, an advocate for

Feinstein: American People Deserve Opportunity to Read Glenn Simpson, Fusion GPS Transcript

Press Release:  Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today released the transcript of Glenn Simpson’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee with the support of committee Democrats. Simpson is the co-founder of Fusion GPS. “After speaking with majority and minority committee staff

Worth the Read —

Battle Lines Drawn as GOP Moves Closer to ‘Greatest Transfer of Wealth to the Super-Rich in Modern American History’ by Jake Johnson, staff writer With their passage of a deeply unpopular $1.5 tax cut bill on Thursday, House Repubicans did their part

#HellerTheHypocrite Working to Pack the Courts with Right Wing Unqualified Judges

After the untimely death of Justice Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice Merrick Garland was nominated for a seat on Supreme Court of the United States. The obstruction of the Republican party made it so Garland wouldn’t receive a fair hearing. Senator Heller told

Senate Republicans’ Tax Plan Will Scrap Obamacare Mandate

“The GOP tax bill is now straight-up ‘take away your healthcare to pay for tax cuts for corporations,’” says MoveOn.org’s Ben Wikler — by Jessica Corbett, staff writer In congressional Republicans’ latest move to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, several news outlets reported on Tuesday that

Advocacy: The Conscience of the Government is at Stake

— by Katie O’Connell, PFAW Digital Communications Coordinator  With three nominees stacked into one hearing today, it’s pretty clear that Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley doesn’t actually want us to know much if anything at all about the nominees for two lifetime