Press Releases

WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Susie Lee (NV-03) joined House Committee on Education and the Workforce Ranking Member Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (VA-03), and Congresswoman Susan Wild (PA-07) in introducing the Direct Creation, Advancement, and Retention of Employment (CARE) Opportunity Act to invest in the direct care workforce across the country and grow the direct care workforce of the future.

WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Susie Lee (NV-03) released the following statement to mark the one-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision, which overturned nearly 50 years of precedent settled by Roe v. Wade, decimating a woman’s right to choose in states across the country:

WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Susie Lee (NV-03) announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded the Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) of Southern Nevada a nearly $6 million grant for the Charleston Boulevard High-Capacity Transit Planning project. In February, Congresswoman Lee joined the Nevada delegation in sending a letter of support backing RTC’s application for this critical funding.

WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Susie Lee (NV-03) led ten House colleagues in a letter to President Biden, urging him to swiftly nominate and work to confirm a permanent Administrator to lead the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). NHTSA is the central federal body responsible for reducing deaths, injuries, and economic losses due to motor vehicle crashes. The agency has not had a Senate-confirmed leader for longer than three months since 2017.

WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Susie Lee (NV-03), spoke on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to congratulate the Las Vegas Golden Knights on last night’s historic Stanley Cup victory. Congresswoman Lee honored the Golden Knights as not just a sport team but a symbol of unity and resilience, tied to the community when their very first home game came just days after the tragic shooting that struck Las Vegas on October 1, 2017.  

WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Susie Lee (NV-03), a member of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, was among the first members of the House of Representatives to sign three discharge petitions that would force a full House vote on three common sense gun violence prevention measures currently being blocked by Republican leadership.

WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Susie Lee (NV-03), a member of the House Appropriations Committee and the Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, slammed Republican efforts to cut funding for critical military construction and insert partisan changes to existing law, known as “riders,” that would restrict funding for veterans’ services.

WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Susie Lee (NV-03), Congresswoman Lori Trahan (MA-03), Congressman Michael Burgess (TX-26), and Congressman Dan Crenshaw (TX-02) introduced the bipartisan Disease X Act, which proactively supports the research and development of medical countermeasures (MCM) to address current and future public health threats.