Press Releases
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Susie Lee (Nev.-03) announced that the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded First Person Care Clinic, a non-profit organization that provides medical care services in southern Nevada, $561,501 in funding from the American Rescue Plan (ARP). This award will help support the construction, expansion, and other capital improvements to expand the clinic’s health care infrastructure and bring essential health care to more Nevadans.
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Susie Lee (Nev.-03) announced that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has granted Fibroplate, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company located in Nevada’s Third District, a Small Business Innovation Research Grant (SBIR) of $246,634. This grant will help fund the company’s research project, which will explore how medical professionals can accelerate bone healing in the elderly.
WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Susie Lee (Nev.-03) voted to pass the Women’s Health Protection Act, a bill that would guarantee the right for patients to access abortion care and providers to provide abortion services, free from medically unnecessary and dangerous restrictions. The passage of the Women’s Health Protection Act comes on the heels of the Supreme Court’s decision to allow Texas’s six-week abortion ban to go into effect and as the Court is scheduled to take up Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on the Mississippi abortion ban later this year.
Rep. Lee’s Bill, the Large-Scale Water Recycling Project Investment Act is Included in Newly Released Text of Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation
WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Susie Lee, a member of the Appropriations Committee, and a member of the Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, voted for final passage of seven funding bills, including the Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies funding bill.