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LV Sun: Las Vegas gets $5 million grant to combat terrorism

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“This grant is an important investment in the safety and security of the residents of Southern Nevada and the nearly 43 million visitors who travel to Las Vegas each year for work and for play,” U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., said in a news release.

Rep. Titus Urges Appropriations Committee to Block Yucca Mountain, Plutonium Shipments

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April 9, 2019
Today Representative Dina Titus of Nevada’s First Congressional District testified before the House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee. In her testimony, Congresswoman Dina Titus (NV-1) urged leadership of the House Appropriations Committee not to appropriate any additional funds towards Yucca Mountain and to prevent the Department of Energy from shipping any additional plutonium to Nevada from South Carolina.

LVRJ: Wild horses, public land remain a tough balancing act

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Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., claims that under the Trump administration the BLM has “taken significant steps to remove protections for these animals.” A longtime advocate of the herds, Titus said this year that the government is “shifting resources away from scientifically sound birth control programs and wasting limited resources on costly and dangerous roundups and holdings which only exacerbate population growth.”

UNLV News Center: UNLV Interns Help Make Nevada's Legislature Even More Historic

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U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, a retired UNLV political science professor, spearheaded the legislative internship program in 1997 when she was a state assemblywoman. Since then about 30 students have learned about the legislative process from the inside out, working in Carson City during the session or local field offices of Nevada's congressional delegation. Many have gone on to careers as attorneys, lobbyists, and even elected officials.

Fox 11 (Reno): NV Representatives send letter urging committee to block Yucca Mountain plutonium shipment

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Today, Representative Dina Titus of Nevada’s First Congressional District, Representative Susie Lee of Nevada’s Third Congressional District, and Representative Steven Horsford of Nevada’s Fourth Congressional District sent two letters to Congressional leaders on the House Appropriations Committee, urging the Committee to block Yucca Mountain and prevent any new shipments of toxic plutonium to Nevada from South Carolina.

LVRJ: COMMENTARY: Nevada still has plenty of fight left in Yucca Mountain battle

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Time and time again, Nevadans have made it clear that we will not allow our state to become the dumping ground for the country’s nuclear waste. We will not stand idly by while Washington bureaucrats ship radioactive materials straight through our neighborhoods. And we will fight any plan to store dangerous nuclear waste in a facility that sits on a seismically unsafe site and potentially threatens our water supply.