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Members of Nevada's congressional delegation have continued to file legislation aimed at Yucca Mountain.
Sen. Jacky Rosen and Rep. Susie Lee, along with Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and Reps. Mark Amodei and Steven Horsford, introduced the Jobs, Not Waste Act, which would put a hold on any action on the Yucca Mountain site.
Members of Nevada's congressional delegation are attempting to ensure states have a voice in the construction of nuclear waste repositories.
Nevada lawmakers have introduced a bill in Congress that would stop any attempt to revive the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site.
U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Representative Dina Titus (D-NV), along with Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Representative Steven Horsford (D-NV), and Representative Susie Lee (D-NV) introduced the Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act in the United States Senate and U.S. House of Representatives.
WASHINGTON — Nevada lawmakers will fire the first shot Tuesday in the expected legislative battle over Yucca Mountain in the new Congress.
The state's representatives and senators said Monday they are filing bills in the House and Senate that would require states, local governments and tribes to consent to housing a nuclear waste repository before the federal government could build a storage facility.
House Democrats last week celebrated the passage of a resolution blocking President Donald Trump's emergency declaration and long-sought gun control bills that would require universal background checks for gun purchases as well as extend the time for the background checks to be completed.
But with opposition from Trump and the Senate GOP, the measures are unlikely to become law.
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.