Vice President Joe Biden will be in Las Vegas next week, in part to stump for congressional candidate Erin Bilbray. Bilbray’s campaign confirmed Biden would be a special guest at an …
In a rare feat of bipartisanship, Republicans and Democrats from Nevada’s six-person delegation have backed Heller’s effort to renew benefits for the long-term unemployed. ...
Nevada's congressional delegation tried its best this week to strip federal funding for research to store the nation's nuclear waste in Nevada's Yucca Mountain, but it was a futile effort ...
It’s got a catchy name, but a proposal by Senate Democrats to override a Supreme Court decision striking down part of a federal mandate requiring companies to provide women with birth control isn’t likely to become law anytime soon. The Not My Boss’ Business Act would guarantee...
An abandoned mine outside Henderson could go from toxic eyesore to residential high-rises after Congress approved the sale more than 900 acres of federal land to the city of Henderson. The Senate approved legislation Wednesday...
There’s a place in Congress where the nation’s biggest scandals get dissected. From questionable IRS scrutiny of conservative nonprofits to the 2012 killings of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is on it. And Nevada’s Democratic Rep. Steven Horsford is right in the middle ...
It’s America’s birthday week, but the country’s most recognizable landmark is empty. The marbled halls of Congress, normally bustling with striding, suited lawmakers and their harried aides ...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Congress will have to pick up where the Supreme Court left off after the court ruled that employers don’t have to provide contraceptives to their employees. “If the Supreme Court will not...
Horsford toured a southern Texas detention facility Saturday and was appalled by what he saw: About 50 children crowd into bedroom-size cells, where they sleep on concrete floors ...
Rep. Joe Heck probably had the Nevada delegation’s most successful week in Congress, and Sen. Dean Heller continued his fight to extend unemployment benefits for ...
Congressional Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., renewed their calls today for House Republicans to take up immigration reform. “Republicans are the reason we haven’t been able to do immigration reform,” Reid said at...
In a relatively quiet Nevada election year, the race to represent Henderson and Boulder City in Congress will be big and bitter in one of America’s last true swing districts in the U.S. House of Representatives. Republican incumbent Rep. Joe Heck is ...
Congress approved a bill today to modernize workforce development programs, which in Nevada help train job-seekers for new industries and provide educational opportunities for workers. Congress last addressed workforce programs...
Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., is once again trying to restore federal benefits for the long-term unemployed, after his last approach failed to pass Congress. “What I was hoping would be a sprint has become...
It’s not every day a Las Vegas resident gets a shoutout from the president. But today, President Barack Obama singled out entrepreneur Jen McCabe as a key player in a new wave of manufacturers who Obama says are …
A Senate panel led by Nevada Sen. Dean Heller said the country is so deceived by weight loss products that they invited Dr. Mehmert Oz of “The Dr. Oz Show” to Washington, D.C., to talk about how to clamp down on false advertisements. During today's hearing ...
Las Vegas now has $28 million in federal tax breaks to hand out to businesses that want to invest in lower-income areas. The city was awarded the tax breaks this week as part of...
Interstate 11 is the West’s dream transportation project. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is ushering the project through the Washington bureaucracy. Every politician and chamber of commerce between Reno and Phoenix supports the project. After a decade of planning, it’s almost time to start building. But there’s a bump in ...
Tea party candidate Niger Innis lost his primary race for Congress on Tuesday, but he’s not giving up without a fight. Innis, a political consultant, conceded the Republican primary for...
Republican congressional nominee Cresent Hardy may have coasted to victory in his primary, but now the real work begins if he wants to unseat Steven Horsford for ...
A vote on a bill to make federal student loans more affordable failed in the Senate on Wednesday, but Democrats aren’t worried. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Democrats are using the defeat as...
In the wake of the Las Vegas police shooting, Nevada Sen. Harry Reid has thrown his full and considerable political weight into more strict gun laws. The Nevada Democrat has ...
In anticipation of a damning report expected to be released today on Veterans Affairs management in Nevada, Sen. Dean Heller called for the resignation of the head of the agency in Reno. “Enough is enough,” the Republican senator from Nevada said in...
Sen. Harry Reid has written much about his childhood growing up in a mining town gone bust. But the Nevada Democrat doesn’t think the same fate befalls today’s coal miners ...
Within the ongoing national narrative of the Republican party’s identity crisis, think of Assemblyman Cresent Hardy as the establishment candidate. The Mesquite native ...
In April, Nevada Sen. Dean Heller’s bipartisan bill to restore federal benefits for long-term unemployed Americans passed the Senate. But no amount of...
The U.S. Senate’s top Democrat and top Republican testified today at opposite ends of a proposed constitutional amendment to give Congress power to limit outside spending in campaigns. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid left his...
Political activist and tea party candidate Niger Innis likes to frame himself as the outsider, the fringe candidate whose ideas resonate with people tired of the establishment. But some Republican operatives ...
Tired of negative stereotypes and high taxes, one of gaming’s most prominent trade associations is going on the offensive. The American Gaming Association is launching...
As an international tourist destination, Las Vegas is a magnet for sex trafficking. And members of Congress who represent the metropolitan area agreed today on what to do about it. Despite party differences, members of Congress who...
There’s little that angers members of Congress in both parties more than accusations of mistreatment of veterans. And allegations that Veterans Affairs health care officials covered up...
If there’s one thing Congress can come together on, it’s tax breaks for constituents. This week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is attempting to push through...
A poll commissioned by Erin Bilbray’s campaign shows the candidate for Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District lacks name recognition but her resoundingly Democratic message may resonate with voters. An independent Washington, D.C. ...
Almost a year into her campaign for Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District, Democrat Erin Bilbray hopes she’s made inroads with voters. It’s not an easy sell ...
Two years after federal employees were caught noshing on $7,000 sushi on the taxpayer’s dime in Las Vegas, Rep. Mark Amodei hopes the government will consider holding its conventions there again. The Republican representing...
The way congressional Republicans see it, the independent agency charged with studying Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste site is trying to run out the clock on the project. That’s because the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ...
Nevada is home to some of the fastest-growing charter schools in the country, and the state is earning a reputation nationally among advocates for its progress. Gov. Brian Sandoval was named...
Tourism advocates have dubbed this first week of May the National Travel and Tourism Week, and Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev. took the opportunity to call for more investment in Las Vegas’ tourism industry and beyond. To do so ...
Nevada Sen. Dean Heller is reversing some of his earlier attempts to compromise with House Republican leaders to get his bill passed. A month ago, Heller said he was willing to compromise ...