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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Susie Lee (Nev.-03) announced that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) awarded the City of Henderson’s Police Department two Paul Coverdell Forensic Science Improvement Grants, totaling $270,486. This funding will allow the Henderson Police Department to obtain a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)

WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Susie Lee (NV-03) voted to pass the Supporting Health Care Providers During the COVID-19 Pandemic Act, which will stop harmful cuts to Medicare reimbursements. These cuts are set to take effect on January 1st, 2022 and would devastate frontline workers, including those at hospitals and other health care settings.

WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Susie Lee (NV-03) joined 17 of her colleagues in sending a letter to President Biden and leadership in the House and Senate urging preventative action against harmful cuts to Medicare reimbursements. These cuts are set to take effect on January 1st, 2022 and would devastate frontline workers, including those at hospitals and other health care settings.

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Susie Lee (Nev-.03) highlighted a new report showing that the Build Back Better Act would meaningfully lower costs and cut taxes for Nevada families, saving them thousands of dollars each year. According to the report, just four cost-cutting provisions of this landmark legislation alone will save the median Nevada family with two parents and two children at least $8,000 each year and save the median single-parent family with two children at least $14,150.

WASHINGTON – Today, Reps. Susie Lee, Cindy Axne, and Susan Wild led more than 20 colleagues in writing a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer urging additional action on legislation that would ease supply chain bottlenecks and help lower costs for their constituents.

WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Susie Lee released the following statement in response to the Department of Energy’s announcement that it will restart its consent-based siting program for spent nuclear fuel.

WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Susie Lee released the following statement after voting to pass the Build Back Better Act out of the House: “Nevadans sent me to Congress to deliver lower costs for prescription drugs, affordable health care and child care, tax breaks for the middle class, and policies that will fight this climate crisis with the urgency that it demands,”

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Reps. Susie Lee (NV-03) and Michelle Steel (CA-48) announced their introduction of the bipartisan Telehealth Expansion Act, which would permanently extend a CARES Act telehealth waiver to ensure that 35 million Americans continue to have affordable coverage of telehealth services. The CARES Act, a bipartisan bill signed into law in March 2020, allowed individuals with HSA-qualified high-deductible plans to access telehealth services before meeting their deductible.