Last week, the $600 weekly unemployment income boost expired. On May 15, the House passed the HEROES Act to extend unemployment aid through the end of the year. Yet as of today, President Donald Trump is threatening some kind of unilateral action as Senate Republicans remain stuck in their own quagmire.
Amidst this chaos, Reps. Dina Titus (D-Las Vegas), Steven Horsford (D-North Las… Read more »
By Dina Titus and Brian Knudson Special to the Review-Journal
Several months ago, Congress passed the CARES Act to help communities across the country respond to and recover from this public health crisis. Under that law, Nevada has received billions of dollars to fight COVID-19 and help workers and small businesses get back on their feet.
While it is hard to overstate the… Read more »
The House of Representatives has approved $102.6 million for the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse and Burro Program, a portion of which will be spent on implementing a humane fertility control vaccine used to manage wild horse populations.
The Senate has yet to take up companion legislation.
Thanks to an amendment introduced by Nevada Democratic Rep. Dina Titus and Tennessee… Read more »
With the Nevada Division of Welfare and Supportive Services anticipating 20,000 new food stamps applications at the end of the month as more generous federal unemployment assistance expires, federal officials have extended waivers through the end of August that allow for more streamlined application and renewal processes.
Applying for food stamps, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance… Read more »
US Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., on Monday introduced legislation setting aside $90 billion in pandemic relief to help K-12 schools and colleges meet CDC guidelines to slow the spread of COVID-19.
The “Reopen Schools Safely Act” would provide more than $800 million in funding for Nevada schools. The proposal is companion legislation to a bill introduced by Sen. Debbie Stabenow,… Read more »
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) strongly supports legislation proposed today that would thwart an anticipated Executive Order mandating classical architecture as the preferred design style for federal courthouses and other federal properties.
The legislation, proposed July 15, 2020 by Alice Costandina "Dina" Titus, U.S. Representative for Nevada's 1st congressional district… Read more »
Local members of Congress are diving into Nevada’s unemployment mess. The state’s in charge of distributing the money, but congressional leaders are trying to clear out any obstacles in the way in a letter to the Department of Labor.
In a letter, Representative Dina Titus along with Susie Lee and two other congressional members are asking the Department of Labor to help.… Read more »
A House panel approved a spending bill Monday that includes $27 million for interim storage of nuclear waste and no funds for a Yucca Mountain repository.
The bill was considered a victory for Nevada because it also included language to prevent the Trump administration from conducting a nuclear weapons test and also prohibited future shipments of weapons-grade plutonium from South… Read more »
Two lawmakers from Nevada and Utah filed an amendment Friday to the defense bill that would prohibit the Defense Department from resuming nuclear weapons testing.
Reps. Dina Titus, D-Nev., and Ben McAdams, D-Utah, filed the measure as the House prepares to mark up the massive defense bill that authorizes spending for fiscal year 2021, which begins Oct. 1.
Titus filed an amendment to a… Read more »
Nevada Rep. Dina Titus on Tuesday joined the growing chorus of those urging a name change for the Washington Redskins football team.
President Donald Trump and the team’s majority owner, Daniel Snyder, have opposed a change to the team name that Native Americans and others find racially insensitive.
“Changing the name is the right thing to do,” Titus, D-Nev., said in… Read more »
