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Questions for Nevada Rep. Susie Lee and local officials during a tele-town hall Tuesday reflected the palpable anxiety in Southern Nevada — and that was before Nevada announced the closures of non-essential businesses for 30 days.

When it comes to the economy, we all want the same thing: steady employment, living wages and the financial security to not just get by, but thrive. Workforce development is a big part of our country's economic success, and it will be the focus if we want to succeed moving forward. During my first year in Congress, I have introduced and passed bipartisan bills to expand and support workforce development across industries— from tech, to cybersecurity, to caregiver support to child care.

The U.S. House on Thursday passed a measure to resuscitate the 1923 Equal Rights Amendment by repealing a long-expired congressional deadline for state ratification.

The resolution aims to ensure the ratification a constitutional amendment that would guarantee equal legal rights regardless of sex. Proponents of the ERA hailed the vote as historic, but the effort to add the amendment to the Constitution still faces legal and political hurdles.

The Department of Veterans Affairs told Congress Monday that it plans to delay the long-anticipated rollout of a $16 billion electronic health records system that was expected to go live next month.

VA said on Monday "members of Congress have urged the department not to rush its electronic health record (EHR) modernization efforts."

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan House bill aimed at easing the shortage of child care centers by providing Small Business Administration loans to run them was hailed Thursday by national and state education and children's advocacy groups as a common-sense solution that will benefit working families.

The bill, filed by Rep. Susie Lee, D-Nev., and Rep. Pete Stauber, R-Minn., would make the same small-business loans that for-profit child care providers receive available to non-profit operations so they can expand to meet the growing need for facilities and educational programs.

President Donald Trump Thursday signaled his support may be wavering on building a national nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain after years of including funding for the project in each of his budget recommendations.

Environmental advocates in Nevada want U.S. lawmakers to fully fund a decades-old revenue stream that has contributed more than $100 million to outdoor preservation projects in the state since its inception.

By authorizing only a partial appropriation each year of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, an act established by Congress in 1964, the federal government is preventing more robust protection of public lands and missing an opportunity to enhance outdoor recreation, which has proved to be a major economic driver in Nevada, advocates say.

Rep. Susie Lee started her Congressional career in 2019 by being sworn in during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

At the end of the year, the first-term Democrat voted to impeach the president.

"I did not get elected with the intention of wanting to impeach the president," Lee told KNPR's State of Nevada, "And outside the decision to send men and women to war to protect our freedom, making the decision to proceed with impeachment for this president is one of the most grave decisions I make as a member of Congress."