WASHINGTON — Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev., a medical officer in the Army Reserve, had been angling for a seat on the House Armed Services Committee. On Friday it came through.
Kellie Obong sleeps in a chair by her daughter’s hospital bed, watching over the teenager who is in an induced coma with bleeding in her brain.
Elizabeth Halseth is among the most unlikely of Carson City newcomers. The newly elected senator for District 9 in Clark County has only lived in Nevada since 2006, doesn’t have deep political connections, didn’t study politics in college and wasn’t endorsed by either major newspaper in her Las Vegas-area district in the general election.