Nevada Rep. Dina Titus on Monday donned a gold pot leaf pin on her lapel. She and representatives of the cannabis and banking industries gathered in a Las Vegas dispensary to mark the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of the SAFE Banking Act — a bill that would allow marijuana dispensaries and growers to use banks and credit unions. Read more »

A House subcommittee headed by Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., is investigating whether the president violated the emoluments clause of the Constitution and profited illegally from foreign leaders staying at his Trump International Hotel in Washington, another property leased by Trump from the federal government. Read more »

Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., said she introduced the bill to make sure the Transportation Services Administration “goes the extra mile in Las Vegas and at airports all across the country to communicate with the traveling public.” Read more »

Nevada Rep. Dina Titus held a congressional hearing Wednesday to investigate legal and ethical questions surrounding President Donald Trump’s lease of a building that houses his International Hotel. Read more »

Titus and Deutch both expressed their frustration over the typical media framing that “Congress isn’t doing anything.” Instead, Titus pointed out, “Democrats in the House are acting. It’s McConnell and the Republicans in the Senate who are not acting.” Later on, Deutch added, “It’s been over 200 days since we sent the universal background checks bills to the Senate. McConnell hasn’t taken it up. People keep losing their lives every day those bills sit there.” Read more »

Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., whose district includes Parkland where a gunman shot and killed 17 people in 2018, is the lead sponsor of the Keep Americans Safe Act, which would ban ammunition magazines that contain more than 10 rounds for handguns and rifles. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., is a co-sponsor. Read more »

At a roundtable discussion Monday in Las Vegas, Titus and Deutch talked about legislation including the Keep Americans Safe Act, which would, with some exceptions, ban magazines with more than a 10-round capacity. The House Judiciary Committee passed the act earlier this month. Read more »

A Democratic member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said on Tuesday that she supports “clueless” President Donald Trump’s decision to part ways with National Security Adviser John Bolton. Read more »

By some measures, the federal government set the stage for the proposal in the 1950s, when it began testing atomic weapons in the Nevada desert and developed a strong military presence in Clark, Lincoln and Nye counties. Initially, and without knowing the full effects of radiation exposure, Nevadans and Las Vegans “welcomed” the testing, Titus said. Read more »

Nearly two years ago, I received a phone call in the middle of the night that no elected official ever wants to hear. It was awful. And I thought of all the parents who were about to get phone calls that were even worse. Read more »