Nevada’s 1st congressional district, represented by Rep. Dina Titus, has about 13,800 eligible “Dreamers” and 1,800 eligible under TPS, according to the study. The estimated annual economic contributions of households the act would affect are $79,779,000 in federal taxes; $37,144,000 in state and local taxes and a total of $416,226,000 in spending power. Read more »

Not only would the routes take it through the heart of Las Vegas — one rail line literally parallels the Strip just to the west — but the waste would go across 22,000 miles and railways, and 7,000 miles of highways coast to coast. As Nevada Rep. Dina Titus has pointed out, it would travel through a whopping 329 congressional districts. Read more »

Rep. Dina Titus on Tuesday denounced a request from President Donald Trump's administration to restart the licensing process for a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain. The Democrat told a joint session of the Nevada Legislature that she will not stand by and let Trump's administration treat Nevada "as a dumping ground for the nation's nuclear waste." Read more »

Congresswoman Dina Titus (D-Nevada) is sponsoring the Weekends Without Hunger Act, which establishes a five-year pilot program to provide food to schools, food banks and non-profits such as Serving Our Kids and Three Square. Titus says more than 200,000 children in Nevada are eligible for discounted or free breakfast and lunch at school. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says 13 million children in America live in “food insecure” homes, meaning their families don’t have enough to eat. Read more »

“Well, I thought it was just scandalous. I think universities need to take a hard look at themselves,” the Congresswoman told me Wednesday from Washington, part of our regular conversation with our DC delegation we call “Connect to Congress.” Read more »

Editor’s note: The following column is a collaboration between Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen, and Reps. Dina Titus, Susie Lee and Steven Horsford. It was submitted by Battle Born Progress, a nonprofit political advocacy organization based in Southern Nevada. Read more »

March 12, 2019
I’m so glad to see one of the recommendations from our Cancer Moonshot Roundtable come to fruition. Read more »

March 11, 2019
By proposing that even more money be wasted on Yucca Mountain, Donald Trump has broken the promise he made to Nevadans during his recent visit to Elko. Read more »

Nevada Democratic Rep. Dina Titus, in a tweet, said that Democrats in the House “just voted to put an end” to corruption “in Trump’s Washington.” Read more »

Democratic Rep. Dina Titus spent years biding her time in the minority. Now that Democrats have won control of the House, the congresswoman has newfound clout, thanks to the years she has spent developing relationships and working her way up the ladder in a chamber that operates on a seniority system. Read more »