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September 29, 2021
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.
Issues:
Health Care
September 28, 2021
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.
September 24, 2021
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.
Issues:
Health Care
September 23, 2021
WASHINGTON – Today, Rep. Susie Lee voted to pass the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022. This bipartisan bill honors our values, supports our servicemembers and their families, strengthens our security, and advances our leadership in the world.
Issues:
Veterans & Military Families
September 17, 2021
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Susie Lee (Nev.-03) announced that nearly $1 million has been awarded to Southern Nevada colleges and universities to support campus-based child care programs and enable parents to obtain their degrees.
August 31, 2021
WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Representative Susie Lee (D-NV), along with Rep. Raul Ruiz, M.D. (D-CA), Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA), and Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC), introduced the bipartisan MOBILE Health Care Act.
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Health Care
August 24, 2021
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Susie Lee (Nev.-03) released the following statement after voting to pass S.Con.Res 14, which allows the House of Representatives to begin the budget reconciliation process: “Nevada was hit hard by the pandemic, and I am going to do everything I can to help us recover and rebuild stronger than ever.
August 2, 2021
WASHINGTON - Today, Rep. Susie Lee released the following statement in response to the text of her bill, H.R. 4099, the Large-Scale Water Recycling Project Investment Act, being included in the Senate’s bipartisan infrastructure legislation, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
Issues:
Water
July 30, 2021
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.
Issues:
Energy & Public Lands
July 29, 2021
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Susie Lee, along with Rep. Stewart (R-UT-02) and Rep. Huffman (D-CA-02) and Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) today introduced legislation to get critical water use data in the hands of farmers, ranchers, and decision-makers for improved water management across the Western U.S.
Issues:
Water