Nevada’s congressional delegation voted on party lines Friday to advance the Inflation Reduction Act, which now goes to President Joe Biden for his signature.
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Former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, who led the Senate’s Democrats, was accorded a rare honor as his body lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda on Wednesday.
President Joe Biden nominated Nevada Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson on Friday to be the next U.S. attorney for the state.
Sen. Jacky Rosen and Rep. Susie Lee, both Nevada Democrats, filed similar bills Wednesday that would make the providers eligible for Small Business Administration loans.
West Virginia has led other states, including Nevada, when it comes to distributing the coronavirus vaccine to its residents, in part by partnering with smaller pharmacy chains and community groups.
Democrats in Congress have introduced bills that would deny funding to the Trump administration to resume nuclear weapons testing in Nevada ahead of an expiring arms reduction treaty.
A Senate committee approved an Energy Department spending bill without any money to revive the stalled Yucca Mountain nuclear repository project.
The House Rules Committee voted 7-4 on Wednesday to kill the funding request by Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill., a staunch advocate of nuclear waste storage at the Nevada site.
A bipartisan Senate bill that would shield financial institutions from being penalized for providing services to cannabis-industry businesses in states that have legalized marijuana has Trump administration support needed to become law.
An $867 billion farm bill that includes food aid programs for roughly 440,000 Nevadans and promotes rural agriculture programs beneficial to the state’s farmers and livestock producers was passed by the House on Wednesday after Senate approval earlier this week.