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A bipartisan public lands bill that preserves 1.3 million acres of wilderness passed the House this week with unanimous support from Nevada representatives. The measure passed the Senate earlier this month, and the president is expected to sign it.
LAS VEGAS - One of 8 News NOW's I-Team stories inspired a lawmaker to get involve and take action. The story shed light on questions about a school for students with special needs, and whether the staff was secluding some students in an outdoor area.
It was a concern for local mother Shantal Myers, but thanks to Congresswoman Susie Lee, D-NV, her story is being heard on Capitol Hill.
WASHINGTON — Former Republican lawmakers and a bipartisan group of past national security officials criticized President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration on the eve of a House vote to terminate the president's plan to circumvent Congress.
The House is expected to vote Tuesday on a resolution of disapproval of the president's declaration of a national emergency at the southern border. The declaration would allow him to tap Pentagon and Treasury Department funds to help pay for a wall between the United States and Mexico.
WASHINGTON — After weeks of sparring over President Donald Trump's plan to build a wall along the Southwest border, the fight resumes this week in Congress.
House Democrats plan to push forward on a resolution to terminate Trump's emergency declaration as an unconstitutional bypass of Congress to shift funds from Pentagon projects to pay for a border wall.
Rep. Susie Lee held a roundtable Thursday to determine the best way forward to advance LGBTQ rights. Among the topics discussed were health issues, sensitivity training and President Donald Trump's transgender ban in the military.
Sensitivity training was mentioned as a need by several participants in the roundtable, and Lee said she was receptive."I think it's important for them to know they have a fighter in me in Washington," Lee said.
WASHINGTON — House Democrats filed a resolution of disapproval Friday that would terminate the national emergency declaration made by President Donald Trump earlier this month, saying the president's move violates authority vested in Congress.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, also claimed the president's emergency is a crisis manufactured to fulfill his campaign promise to build a wall along the 2,000-mile border with Mexico.
Teacher Brian Rippet waved a chemistry book in the air Monday morning.
The nearly 20-year-old textbook is older than most students at Whittell High School in Douglas County, where Rippet teaches. It doesn't contain 10 percent of the world's known chemical elements, he said, because scientists have discovered new ones in the last two decades. The acknowledgment drew gasps from the crowd gathered outside the Grant Sawyer building in downtown Las Vegas.
Congress passed a spending package last week avoiding another government shutdown, but President Donald Trump also set up a showdown with lawmakers with an emergency declaration to fund his border wall.
Those machinations came as Nevada's congressional Democrats received a classified briefing from the Department of Energy on the secret shipment of plutonium the agency sent to the state.
The Senate approved the spending measure 83 to 16 before the bill went to the House, where it passed 300 to 128.
The debate over funding for President Trump's proposed border wall came to a head today in Washington.
Many of Nevada's legislators spoke out against the emergency declarations, including Sens. Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto criticizing Trump for a rejection of bipartisanship and undermining of Congress.Trump declared a national emergency to appropriate the funding from his proposed wall, triggering rebuke from the left and likely setting up a protracted legal fight.