Just how bad is the state of the nation's highway infrastructure? So bad, tires on FedEx trucks last only half as long as they did 20 years ago, as they deteriorate rapidly from crumbling pavement and get more flats from gaping potholes. "We're using almost 100 percent more tires to produce the same mileage of transportation," FedEx Chairman and CEO Fred Smith told the U.S. House… Read more »

The House hearing intended to raise the curtain on President Trump’s call for infrastructure investment was into its third hour Wednesday when the time came for Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.) to speak up. “We’re having the same conversation,” she said. “I keep hearing the same rhetoric without action.” She had a point. Congress, and particularly the House… Read more »

(KXNT) – On Monday Rep. Dina Titus of Nevada’s First Congressional District released the following statement after announcing that she will honor the victims of the 1 October tragedy in Las Vegas by leaving her guest seat empty at the State of the Union and demanding action to prevent gun violence. “Nearly four months have passed since 1 October, and the GOP’s… Read more »

Nevada has detailed fresh concerns about plans to expedite licensing of Yucca Mountain as a nuclear repository in a report that was delivered Friday by the state’s congressional delegation to key House members. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., distributed the state’s report to lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce and the House Appropriation committees asking that they review it… Read more »

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Marijuana could become federally legal if a bill that Nevada Rep. Dina Titus recently signed onto becomes law. Titus, a Democrat representing central Las Vegas, on Tuesday signed on as a co-sponsor to a bill from U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colorado, that aims to remove marijuana in all forms from the schedule of drugs under the Controlled Substances Act. “Nevada has shown that… Read more »

In response to ongoing threats to the cannabis industry from the U.S. Department of Justice and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, lawmakers have prepared a bill meant to nip funding for federal interference in the bud. Last week, Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced a house resolution aimed "to protect states and individuals in states that have laws which permit the use of… Read more »

Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.) slammed President Trump for his remarks referring to immigrants from “shithole countries,” saying Trump is a “vile stain” on America’s reputation. “Just when you think he cannot say anything more vulgar and offensive, he embarrasses us again,” Titus tweeted Thursday. “He is a vile stain on our country's… Read more »

Several thousand Nevada residents from El Salvador will likely face deportation in September 2019 under a new Trump Administration directive to end their Temporary Protected Status. According to the Center for American Progress, about 6,300 Nevada residents are TPS holders from El Salvador, Honduras and Haiti. The Las Vegas Sun reports about 4,800 of those TPS recipients are… Read more »

Nevada elected officials stood amid glass-shelved displays of marijuana last week to tell the federal government to keep its hands off the state’s legal cannabis industry. Rep. Dina Titus and state Sens. Tick Segerblom and Aaron Ford were at the Apothecary Shoppe marijuana dispensary in Las Vegas, responding to Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ removal of Obama-era protections… Read more »