Congress Archives - Nevada Today

Catherine Cortez Masto, Violence Against Women Act, Savanna's Act, Not Invisible Act, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Indigenous Women, civil rights, women's rights, Native American resilience, #MeToo

May 6, 20210200

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: Violence That Should Never Be “Invisible”

For decades, Native American tribal communities have had to organize and mobilize just to get the rest of us to pay attention to the longstanding cris

April 29, 20210351

Dude, Where’s Our Health Care? – The Cost of Care

Health care can be a very complex and complicated issue. In the last five years, we’ve become accustomed to hearing politicians try to boil everything

Catherine Cortez Masto, Violence Against Women Act, #MeToo, domestic violence, rape kit backlog, women's rights

April 28, 20210387

Why Is Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Still Stalled?

For over two years, we’ve noticed as the full reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) has languished in Congress - more specifically,

April 27, 20210433

Stimulus Watch: Infrastructure Week, for Real?

Remember “Infrastructure Week”? For far longer than a week, reporters, pundits, and policy wonks have been honing in on President Joe Biden’s infrastr

April 21, 20210508

Guilty: Notes on the Derek Chauvin Verdict and the Aftermath

Yesterday, a jury in Minnesota announced their verdict. They found Derek Chauvin guilty on two counts of murder and one count of manslaughter for kill

March 23, 20210338

Hate Crimes Don’t Come Out of Nowhere (And They Don’t Have to Be “Our New Normal”)

For the last year, we’ve seen the proliferation of hate crimes targeting Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders. However, this larger trend of bigotry

Steve Sisolak, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, vaccine

March 17, 20210573

Sisolak Expands COVID-19 Vaccine Eligibility to All Nevadans Aged 16+ Starting April 5

Tonight, Governor Steve Sisolak (D) updated Nevadans on the state’s COVID-19 vaccine strategy... And he gave us two new dates to mark on our calendars

Joe Biden, White House, White House COVID-19 Response Team, COVID-19

March 10, 20210330

COVID-19 Update: Rescue Plan

COVID-19 continues to spread in Nevada and throughout America, but Congress finally finished its work on legislation that will enable President Joe Bi

Culinary Union, Joe Biden, Catherine Cortez Masto, American Rescue Plan, stimulus

March 9, 202101589

Cortez Masto and Culinary Union Hail Passage of the American Rescue Plan

Today, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D) and Culinary Union officials hailed the Senate's passage of the American Rescue Plan during their virtu

impeachment, Congress, COVID-19, coup, stimulus

March 9, 20210404

Stimulus Watch: The Rescue Plan’s Final Cut

Where’s the stimulus? Initial answer: It’s heading to President Joe Biden’s desk, where he’s guaranteed to sign the American Rescue Plan Act into law.