Press Releases

WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Susie Lee announced that she secured the inclusion of $350,000 for the Clark County Small Business Opportunity Program in the Fiscal Year 2023 Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) appropriations bill. This project would expand and upgrade the Clark County Small Business Opportunity Program (SBOP), a long-standing county program that helps small business owners increase their capacity to compete for government contracts.

WASHINGTON – The Office of Rep. Susie Lee (NV-03) is excited to announce that Rep. Lee is hosting a Congressional App Challenge (CAC), an app competition for middle and high school students. The Challenge’s submission portal is now open. Students can register and submit their applications until November 1st, 2022. 

WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass a Financial Services package that included Rep. Susie Lee’s amendment to address the housing affordability crisis in southern Nevada and across the country. Rep. Lee’s amendment would direct the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to combat the housing crisis in America by creating an interagency working group

WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Susie Lee (NV-03) voted to pass the bipartisan Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA), legislation that will amend the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Act to provide states, territories, and Tribes with additional federal funding to manage fish and wildlife species of greatest conservation need. In passing RAWA, Rep. Lee voted to secure more than $25 million per year for Nevada.

WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Susie Lee (NV-03) voted to pass legislation to help communities prevent incidents of gun violence before they occur. The Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act empowers family members and law enforcement to seek a federal court order to temporarily remove access to guns from those who pose a danger to themselves or others, while incentivizing states to adopt their own extreme risk laws, also known as “red flag laws.”

WASHINGTON – Last night, Rep. Susie Lee (NV-03) voted to pass the bipartisan Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2022, legislation that will authorize crucial investments in America’s ports, inland waterways, flood management systems, ecosystems, and other water resources infrastructure. 

WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Susie Lee (NV-03) released the following statement after voting to pass the Protecting Our Kids Act (H.R. 7910), a package of seven provisions that would help to curb gun violence in America. 

WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Susie Lee (NV-03) announced that the Nevada Department of Agriculture (NDA) will receive $652,983 in The Emergency Food Assistance Program’s (TEFAP) Reach and Resiliency grant funding. The grant, awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), will support the implementation of NDA’s project to identify communities underserved by the TEFAP program and obtain the resources necessary to receive and distribute more TEFAP foods, including through expansion of mobile and drive-through models of food distributions.