Las Vegas, NV - Today Congresswoman Dina Titus (NV-01) announced the winners of the 2023 Congressional Art Competition for high school students in Nevada’s First District. Cyenna Nash of the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts won this year’s competition with their piece, titled She’s There for Me, which will be displayed in the United States Capitol for one year alongside the works of other… Read more »
By Casey Harrison, Las Vegas Sun
U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., is urging Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for more transparency in how the department he oversees handles complaints from airline passengers with disabilities amid a rise in such feedback in recent years.
A letter sent to Buttigieg highlighted concerns with how the Transportation Department enforces the Air… Read more »
Washington, DC – Today Congresswoman Dina Titus (D-NV) and Congressman Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA), Co-Chairs of the bipartisan Congressional Gaming Caucus, reintroduced the Shifting Limits on Thresholds (SLOT) Act, legislation that would update the nearly 50-year-old reporting threshold for slot machine winnings by raising it from $1,200 to $5,000 and indexing it to inflation.
While slot… Read more »
Washington, DC – Today Congresswoman Dina Titus (NV-01) and Rep. Tom Cole (OK-04) reintroduced the bipartisan, bicameral Medical Student Education Authorization Act to help address primary care provider shortages by authorizing the Medical Student Education (MSE) Program through Fiscal Year 2025.
Currently Nevada is facing a physician shortage, ranking 48th nationally in shortages of… Read more »
Washington, DC – After being nominated by Congresswoman Dina Titus (NV-01), the Vegas Strong Resiliency Center, managed by the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada, has been selected to receive the Congressional Crime Survivors and Justice Caucus Allied Professional Award, Rep. Titus’s office announced.
The Vegas Strong Resiliency Center (VSRC) was founded in 2017 after the mass… Read more »
Washington, DC – Today Congresswoman Dina Titus (NV-01), a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Chair of the Americans Abroad Caucus, reintroduced the Commission on Americans Living Abroad Act with Representatives Don Beyer (VA-08), Dwight Evans (PA-03), Joyce Beatty (OH-03), and Maria Elvira Salazar (FL-27). The legislation would establish a bipartisan commission to… Read more »
Washington, DC – Today Congresswoman Dina Titus (NV-01) announced that she has been chosen to serve as Ranking Member of the House Democracy Partnership (HDP) in the 118th Congress.
HDP is a bipartisan, twenty-member commission of the U.S. House of Representatives that works directly with parliaments around the world to support the development of effective, independent, and responsive… Read more »
LAS VEGAS (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland joined members of Nevada’s congressional delegation and tribal leaders on Friday to celebrate Avi Kwa Ame, the state’s newly designated national monument, saying the recognition of the desert mountain heralds a “new era” of environmental conservation in which the federal government and tribal nations will work together to maintain… Read more »
Las Vegas, NV – Today Congresswoman Dina Titus (NV-01), a member of the bipartisan Colorado River Caucus, issued the following statement after the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation released their draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for potentially revising the interim operating guidelines for water usage among Colorado River Basin states:
“The Colorado River Basin’s… Read more »
Las Vegas, NV – Today Congresswoman Dina Titus (NV-01) released the following statement on the U.S. Department of Interior’s announcement of up to $269 million in funding and conservation agreements to help the Gila River Indian Community and water users across the Lower Colorado River Basin:
“The Interior Department’s announcement of up to $269 million in water conservation funding is… Read more »
