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The representatives joined leadership from Urban, Latin and Asian chambers of commerce Monday through Facebook live to discuss issues faced by small businesses during the shutdown and to emphasize the steps needed to be taken prior to them reopening.
"We are determined to fight to open up our economy in a science-based, safe manner," Lee said. "That means we need to focus on testing and making sure that testing becomes more and more widespread. We're nowhere close. We are one-fifth of where we need to be in terms of providing testing."
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Susie Lee (Nev.-03) introduced legislation to increase critical federal aid for Medicaid programs as state unemployment rates worsen. The bill creates automatic triggers that increase the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP), or the share of Medicaid costs borne by the federal government, based on each state's unemployment condition.
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Susie Lee (Nev.-03) joined her colleagues, led by Rep. Jan Schakowsky (Ill.-09), in sending a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, requesting that the agencies immediately collect and publicly report facility-level data on the number of long-term care residents affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Reps. Susie Lee (D-Nev.-03), Dina Titus (D-Nev.-01), Steven Horsford (D-Nev.-04), and Mark Amodei (R-Nev.-02) released the following statement on the U.S. Small Business Administration's (SBA) newly updated guidelines to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which exclude small businesses that generate more than 50 percent of their revenue from legal gaming from using the program:
Las Vegas, Nev. — U.S. Rep. Susie Lee (Nev.-03) hosted her third public health telephone town hall to address the COVID-19 pandemic and give her constituents accurate, up-to-date information on what is being done to help protect American families, workers, and small businesses.
They call themselves the House Problem Solvers Caucus and they've met every day by teleconference since the coronavirus shut down Congress.
The bipartisan group offered a plan to get the country moving again based on widespread testing for the virus and rebuilding the healthcare system.
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Susie Lee (Nev.-03) sent a letter dated Apr. 10 to House leadership asking for critical funding for community health centers (CHCs) in the next COVID-19 response package, ensuring that our nation's CHCs can continue to provide life-saving care throughout this crisis. One hundred twenty-three of Rep. Lee's congressional colleagues signed the letter as well.
WASHINGTON — Frustrated with the uneven federal response to the coronavirus outbreak, Nevada lawmakers stepped up their complaints Friday for relief funds and medical supplies to rural hospitals battling the disease.
Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., said rural hospitals treat a higher percentage of patients with Medicare and Medicaid coverage, a fact the Department of Health and Human Resources should take into account as it doles out relief funding to fight the virus.
She signed onto a bill that would create a federal formula that would guarantee funding from relief legislation.
Washington D.C.— U.S. Rep. Susie Lee (Nev.-03) and more than 70 of her congressional colleagues introduced the Coronavirus Community Relief Act, new legislation to provide $250 billion in stabilization funds for local communities, cities, and towns, like Boulder City and Henderson, which are struggling amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Local seniors may be gone from the Senior Center of Boulder City, but they are certainly not forgotten.
Since March 17, when the facility closed to the public, staff has been working behind the scenes to provide meals, regular wellness checks and surprises to its patrons.
Victoria Mason, executive director, said the number of meals they are delivering each weekday through the Meals on Wheels program has jumped since the service began including "congregate" participants, those who would traditionally dine at the center.