Routine use of small drones by real estate agents, farmers, filmmakers and countless other commercial operators was cleared for takeoff by the Obama administration Tuesday, after years of struggling to write rules that would both protect public safety and free the benefits of a new technology.
The Federal Aviation Administration announced the creation of a new category of aviation rules… Read more »
Three months into a deployment in June 2012, Army Sgt. Kevin Jaye was on foot patrol in Afghanistan when he triggered the pressure plate of an improvised explosive device. The blast tore off his right leg and caused significant damage to his left leg and lower torso.
Jaye spent two years at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, enduring more than 30 surgeries and countless… Read more »
Southern Nevada’s business community is pushing to speed construction of Interstate 11 between Las Vegas and Phoenix.
Las Vegas Metro Chamber of Commerce members and leaders traveled to Washington, D.C., this week. A group of more than 50 business people and officials visited with members of the Nevada congressional delegation and others about a range of issues, including getting… Read more »
Thank you for your interest in the presidential debate scheduled for Oct. 19 at the Thomas & Mack Center on the UNLV campus. I share your excitement for having one of the presidential debates take place in our congressional district. Read more »
Legislation approved by Congress on Wednesday extended Nevada’s designation as a federal test site for drone development, but failed to include many aviation-related priorities the delegation had hoped would benefit the state, due to a controversial effort to overhaul air-traffic control operations. The measures fell under legislation to fund the Federal Aviation Administration.
In… Read more »
Veterans Affairs officials aren't saying how 24,000 veterans were diagnosed with traumatic brain injury by VA physicians considered unqualified to make such a determination, but on Wednesday, told Congress the department is working to resolve related disability claims problems.
Some veterans diagnosed with TBI from 2007 to 2015 were denied disability benefits because they were examined… Read more »
In June 2014, I asked my colleagues to join me in a moment of silence on the House floor to honor three members of the Las Vegas community who were slain in a shooting spree. The deceased were Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officers Igor Soldo and Alyn Beck and a shopper at a Walmart who tried to help, Joseph Wilcox.
Unfortunately, I was not the first nor the last member to lead a moment… Read more »
The stakes are high for Nevada as Congress irons out differences between the House and Senate versions of a defense bill.
Even with possible passage of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act when it goes back for a vote in the House, the threat of a veto by President Barack Obama still looms.
What issues hang in the balance?
First, there’s the pay raise gap for uniformed… Read more »
In the fast-track effort to reduce the nation’s backlog of veterans disability claims, Nevada Rep. Dina Titus predicted in August that the Department of Veterans Affairs would “soon be facing an appeals tsunami.”
On Thursday, as the flood of appeals loomed with an estimated 460,000 cases stuck in the backlog, the House Veterans Affairs Committee held a hearing on… Read more »
House Democrats, including Rep. Dina Titus, D-Las Vegas, conducted a sit-in on the House floor Wednesday in an attempt to force a vote on two gun-control proposals.
The two bills target different types of gun-control. The Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act would prevent those on the no-fly list from buying guns. The other, the Public Safety and Second Amendment… Read more »
