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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."
Kendrick Harrison didn't have the money to pay his debt. And, yet, the creditors kept calling to collect.
WASHINGTON – The Democrat-controlled House voted Thursday to overturn regulations introduced by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos that critics said make it more difficult to get student loan forgiveness if a college suddenly closes.
The move to overturn DeVos' rules is unlikely to pass the GOP-controlled Senate. The White House suggested Trump is likely to veto the bill if it does.
The U.S. House is expected to vote next week on a resolution that would overturn a federal rule that critics say guts protections for defrauded student loan borrowers.
The resolution — led by Nevada Democratic Rep. Susie Lee — expresses congressional disapproval of the so-called borrower defense rule, which was revised by President Donald Trump's education secretary, Betsy DeVos.
A bill designed to lower prescription drug costs — and named in honor of Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings — is being enthusiastically pushed by Nevada congressional Reps. Steven Horsford and Susie Lee.
In a call with reporters Tuesday afternoon, Horsford and Lee were also confident their Democratic House colleagues will support H.R.3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act, which is scheduled to come up for a vote in the House of Representatives on Thursday.
It is a privilege, not a right, to be a judge in the United States. A judge must embody open-mindedness, patience, understanding, common sense, critical thinking and other qualities that epitomize the very best in all of us.
A good and fair judge cannot be corrupted by hateful thinking or personal vendettas. That's why Lawrence VanDyke's looming nomination to the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals should scare all of us.
VanDyke, a former Nevada solicitor general and current judicial nominee, will likely receive a Senate floor vote this week.
It is a privilege, not a right, to be a judge in the United States. A judge must embody open-mindedness, patience, understanding, common sense, critical thinking and other qualities that epitomize the very best in all of us.
A good and fair judge cannot be corrupted by hateful thinking or personal vendettas. That's why Lawrence VanDyke's looming nomination to the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals should scare all of us.
VanDyke, a former Nevada solicitor general and current judicial nominee, will likely receive a Senate floor vote this week.