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The representatives joined leadership from Urban, Latin and Asian chambers of commerce Monday through Facebook live to discuss issues faced by small businesses during the shutdown and to emphasize the steps needed to be taken prior to them reopening.
"We are determined to fight to open up our economy in a science-based, safe manner," Lee said. "That means we need to focus on testing and making sure that testing becomes more and more widespread. We're nowhere close. We are one-fifth of where we need to be in terms of providing testing."
They call themselves the House Problem Solvers Caucus and they've met every day by teleconference since the coronavirus shut down Congress.
The bipartisan group offered a plan to get the country moving again based on widespread testing for the virus and rebuilding the healthcare system.
WASHINGTON — Frustrated with the uneven federal response to the coronavirus outbreak, Nevada lawmakers stepped up their complaints Friday for relief funds and medical supplies to rural hospitals battling the disease.
Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., said rural hospitals treat a higher percentage of patients with Medicare and Medicaid coverage, a fact the Department of Health and Human Resources should take into account as it doles out relief funding to fight the virus.
She signed onto a bill that would create a federal formula that would guarantee funding from relief legislation.
Local seniors may be gone from the Senior Center of Boulder City, but they are certainly not forgotten.
Since March 17, when the facility closed to the public, staff has been working behind the scenes to provide meals, regular wellness checks and surprises to its patrons.
Victoria Mason, executive director, said the number of meals they are delivering each weekday through the Meals on Wheels program has jumped since the service began including "congregate" participants, those who would traditionally dine at the center.
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — U.S. Congresswoman Susie Lee sent a letter on Apr. 7 to U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Jovita Carranza and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin regarding SBA's newly enacted Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), requesting it also include gaming small businesses.
This program was enacted to provide relief to small businesses to allow them to keep employees on payroll while non-essential businesses remain closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the Congresswoman says they failed to include gaming small businesses.
WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers want to prioritize food insecurity in the next round of COVID-19 relief legislation.
Future federal coronavirus relief packages should focus on places like Nevada where the economic damage will be outsized regardless of the actual number of COVID-19 cases, said Rep. Susie Lee during a live-streamed event on Monday.
"We're putting the airplane together while we're flying it," said Lee of the coronavirus relief efforts recently undertaken by Congress. "We're literally at war with an invisible invader. One that we don't all know how it'll play out."
LAUGHLIN — Nevada Congresswoman Susie Lee discussed Laughlin's financial situation on the heels of Aldape's Market shutting its doors.
"There's no doubt that Laughlin has been hit hard by the economic shockwaves of the COVID-19 pandemic, making the closure of Aldape's even more difficult to bear," Lee said. "For many residents without easy access to transportation, Aldape's closure means having to find a way to get across the river to purchase basic necessities."
The kitchen staff at a highly rated noodle house in Las Vegas is going about its business in preparation for the lunch rush.