June 8, 2018

Today Representative Dina Titus of Nevada’s First Congressional District released the following statement after her vote against H.R. 5895, the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2019:

“Once again House Republicans push a partisan spending bill that attacks Nevada, underfunds our most vulnerable citizens, and cuts funding for clean energy development as gas prices are skyrocketing,” said Representative Titus. “Republicans continue to push the failed ‘Yucca or Bust’ agenda wasting an additional $190 million dollars to advance the nuclear industry’s campaign of turning Nevada into the nation’s nuclear waste dumping ground. While I am happy to see language modeled after my PUPPERS Act to place limits on VA’s testing using dogs, this bill takes funding from health, environmental, and education programs to pay for Trump’s recently-passed push to move our veterans out of the VA health system.”