Catherine Cortez Masto
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Recent News About Catherine Cortez Masto
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At Hearing, Cortez Masto Highlights Concerns From Nevada Firefighters Ahead Of Wildfire Season
Ahead of the summer wildfire season, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) urged the administration to prioritize firefighter pay increases and mental health support today at a U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources hearing.
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Cortez Masto, Heinrich, Collins Introduce Bipartisan Bill To Permanently Ban Bump Stocks
Today, U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced the Banning Unlawful Machinegun Parts (BUMP) Act, legislation to prohibit the sale of bump stocks and other devices that allow semi-automatic firearms to increase their rate of fire and effectively operate as fully automatic weapons.
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Cortez Masto Introduces Legislation To Protect Immigrant Youth From Harm
Today, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) introduced the Protect Vulnerable Immigrant Youth Act to fix the Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) program for immigrant children who have been abandoned, abused, or neglected by their parents or guardians and have faced horrific conditions in their home countries.
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Cortez Masto Statement On Vote To Prevent Default, Protect Vital Programs For Nevadans
U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) released the following statement on her vote to prevent a U.S. default.
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Cortez Masto & Colleagues Push Bipartisan Legislation To Claw Back Big Failed Bank Executive Pay
Bipartisan Legislation to Claw Back Compensation from Failed Bank Executives Picks Up Steam in the Senate
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Cortez Masto And Colleagues Hold Companies Accountable For Contracting With Slaughterhouse Cleaning Firm That Unlawfully Employed Children
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has seen a 69 percent increase in companies illegally employing children since 2018
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Cortez Masto And Colleagues Hold Companies Accountable For Contracting With Slaughterhouse Cleaning Firm That Unlawfully Employed Children
U.S. Senator Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined Sens. Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) and several Senate colleagues in leading an oversight effort aimed at holding accountable nine companies that contracted with Packers Sanitation Services, Inc. (PSSI),
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Cortez Masto, Rosen Announce $12 Million For Sagebrush Restoration And Wildfire Prevention In Nevada
U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) announced that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is awarding $12 million to fund sagebrush restoration and wildfire fuels reduction in the Montana Mountains in Humboldt County and the Upper Humboldt/O’Neil basin in Elko County.
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Cortez Masto Pushes Legislation To Combat Wildfires, Help Nevadans Impacted By Worsening Fire Seasons
U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto introduced two bills to provide sweeping support for efforts to prevent wildfires and help communities recover.
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Cortez Masto & Colleagues Call on Administration to Streamline Cancellation of Removal Process
U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) led Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) in calling on U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) to make cancellation of removal more accessible for long-term noncitizen residents of the United States.
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Cortez Masto Announces Updated Broadband Map, Expanded Federal Funding and Access for Nevada
On may 30, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) released the following statement after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released an updated version of their National Broadband Map that will ensure Nevada receives more federal funding from the $42.5 billion in broadband grants she pushed for in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
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Senator Cortez Masto Reintroduces Resolution Recognizing The Anniversary Of The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), along with 22 of her Senate colleagues, reintroduced a resolution commemorating the anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and honoring the lives and legacies of the nearly 300 Black men, women, and children who were killed and the nearly 9,000 Black individuals who were left homeless as a result.
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Cortez Masto, Rosen Announce Over $4.5 Million For Cleanup And Economic Development At Brownfield Sites Across Nevada
U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is awarding over $4.5 million to expedite the assessment and cleanup of brownfield sites in Nevada.
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ICYMI: Cortez Masto Fights to Protect Affordable Over-the-counter Birth Control
In Case You Missed It, Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) is continuing her fight to protect women’s rights by reintroducing her legislation to ensure that women across the country have affordable access to FDA-approved birth control without a prescription.
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Cortez Masto Cosponsors Bipartisan Bill To Seek Healing For Native Communities Impacted By Indian Boarding School Injustices
U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and 25 of their Senate colleagues in reintroducing the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States Act, to investigate, document, and acknowledge past injustices of the federal government's Indian Boarding School Policies.
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Cortez Masto Joins Bicameral Effort to Combat America’s Maternal Health Crisis
U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) in a reintroduction of the bicameral Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act.
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Cortez Masto, Rosen Statements on Lower Basin States’ Colorado River Deal to Combat Drought
U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) released the following statements in response to the Lower Basin States’ proposed plan to conserve 3 million acre-feet of water over the next three years to protect the Colorado River system.
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Cortez Masto & Colleagues Reintroduce Legislation To Provide Certainty, Security To TPS Recipients
U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) in reintroducing the Safe Environment from Countries Under Repression and in Emergency (SECURE) Act, which would allow qualified TPS recipients to apply for legal permanent residency.
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Cortez Masto & Young Introduce Bipartisan Small Business Innovation Voucher Act
U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto and Todd Young (R-Ind.) reintroduced the bipartisan Small Business Innovation Voucher Act to ensure America’s small businesses can compete in the 21st century economy.
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New: 39 AGS Endorse Cortez Masto’s Bipartisan Legislation to Crack Down on Xylazine
U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto’s (D-Nev.) bipartisan effort to crack down on xylazine continues to pick up support from across the country, with 39 attorneys general from both parties calling for Congress to pass her Combating Illicit Xylazine Act.