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WASHINGTON – This week, U.S. Rep. Susie Lee (NV-03) joined twenty of her House Democratic colleagues in signing onto a letter urging Speaker Pelosi and Ways and Means Chairman Neal to remove the IRS reporting proposal that raises significant privacy and data security concerns. In the past month, more than a thousand constituents voiced their concerns to Rep. Lee about the potential burdens and unintended consequences that could emerge from this new reporting requirement.

WASHINGTON – As drought continues to plague the west and water levels in Lake Mead fall to record lows, Rep. Susie Lee (NV-03) is continuing to fight for innovative water solutions for Nevada’s future. In the past week, Rep. Lee welcomed Vice President Harris to Lake Mead, joined two House Natural Resources Committee hearings on Colorado River drought conditions and response measures, and spoke on the House floor in support of water investments included in the bipartisan infrastructure bill and Build Back Better Act.

WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Rep. Susie Lee (NV-03) released a progress report marking her third quarter of 2021 in the 117th Congress and highlighting her office’s accomplishments. Highlights of this past quarter’s report can be found below, and you can find Rep. Lee’s reports for the 117th Congress’ first quarter here and second quarter here.

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Susie Lee (Nev.-03) announced that the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) has awarded the Nevada System of Higher Education $1,249,964 in Community Policing Development (CPD) funding to make the University Police Department, which serves Nevada’s state-funded university system, the National De-escalation Training Center in the western region. The City of North Las Vegas also received $162,900 in CPD funding.

LAS VEGAS, NV – Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), and Congresswoman Susie Lee (D-NV) toured the First Person Care Clinic in Henderson and discussed their Maximizing Outcomes through Better Investments in Lifesaving Equipment for (MOBILE) Health Care Act and other efforts to increase access to quality, affordable health care in Nevada, especially in rural and historically underserved communities.

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.