LAS VEGAS - The State of Nevada is intervening in a lawsuit filed by the State of Texas against Energy Secretary Rick Perry. Texas officials are suing Secretary Perry to require the Department of Energy to restart the Yucca Mountain permitting process within 12 months. Nevada is intervening in the suit in an attempt to stop that from happening. Governor Brian Sandoval hinted at the… Read more »

Accountability reforms at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are urgently needed to protect veterans, taxpayers — and animals. Last month, VA Secretary David Shulkin took the rare step of endorsing VA reform legislation after existing rules prevented his agency from immediately firing an employee who was caught watching pornography while with a patient. This is a welcome… Read more »

After questions from California members of Congress, the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center has halted planned tests on narcoleptic dogs. In a May letter to the Veterans Affairs inspector general, U.S. Rep. Dina Titus (D-Nev.) and eight members of Los Angeles' congressional delegation demanded to know more about the experiment, including how much it… Read more »

The House voted Wednesday to ban all Department of Veterans Affairs medical testing that causes pain to dogs, language that is now part of a multi-agency funding bill. By voice vote, lawmakers approved an amendment that would prevent the VA from spending any money on those tests. The bipartisan proposal was offered by Reps. Dave Brat, R-Va., and Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev. "My amendment… Read more »

With Las Vegas still on the outside looking in when it comes to hosting college championship games, Nevada congressmen sent a letter to NCAA President Mark Emmert asking the organization to rethink its stance. Senators Dean Heller and Catherine Cortez Masto, as well as representatives Dina Titus, Mark E. Amodei, Ruben Kihuen and Jacky Rosen, signed the letter, saying the NCAA should… Read more »

Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., came out swinging on the American Health Care Act this week on the House floor, zeroing in on a report from the congressional Joint Economic Committee showing that tax cuts in the legislation would save the wealthiest 0.1 percent of Americans $207,390 each in a single year. This GOP disastrous health care proposal is really just the largest transfer of wealth… Read more »

Rep. Dina Titus has taken President Trump to task for the Jan. 27 travel ban established by executive order, citing travel industry statistics that show a 17 percent decline in flight searches for travel to the United States. “Actions you consider necessary to protect the homeland are pushing away allies and sending a message to the world that the United States no longer welcomes… Read more »

The story begins almost 250 million years ago, with the ocean and geology and gypsum. It starts with the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area under an ancient sea, at a time when what is now Utah marked the continent’s coastal boundary. Movements in Earth’s crust eventually pushed the land up, and when water dried in pocketed lakebeds, it left salt and sometimes… 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 »

Several leaders and groups around Nevada have released statements regarding President Trump's nominee for Supreme Court. Rep. Dina Titus releases a statement on Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Today Rep. Dina Titus of Nevada’s First Congressional District issued the following statement on President Donald Trump’s nomination of United States Appeals Court Judge Neil… Read more »