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January 29, 2020

Environmental advocates in Nevada want U.S. lawmakers to fully fund a decades-old revenue stream that has contributed more than $100 million to outdoor preservation projects in the state since its inception.

By authorizing only a partial appropriation each year of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, an act established by Congress in 1964, the federal government is preventing more robust protection of public lands and missing an opportunity to enhance outdoor recreation, which has proved to be a major economic driver in Nevada, advocates say.

Issues: Health Care

January 28, 2020

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Susie Lee (Nev.-03), a members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), released the following statement to mark yesterday's third anniversary of Executive Order 13769, signed by the President on Jan. 27, 2017, which restricts travel to the U.S. from several Muslim-majority countries:

Issues: Congress

January 24, 2020

Las Vegas, Nev. – U.S. Rep. Susie Lee (Nev.-03), a member of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), released the following statement celebrating the Lunar New Year, which begins on Jan. 25, 2020, and marks the Year of the Rat:


January 24, 2020

Rep. Susie Lee started her Congressional career in 2019 by being sworn in during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

At the end of the year, the first-term Democrat voted to impeach the president.

"I did not get elected with the intention of wanting to impeach the president," Lee told KNPR's State of Nevada, "And outside the decision to send men and women to war to protect our freedom, making the decision to proceed with impeachment for this president is one of the most grave decisions I make as a member of Congress."

Issues: Congress

January 19, 2020

Kendrick Harrison didn't have the money to pay his debt. And, yet, the creditors kept calling to collect.


January 16, 2020

WASHINGTON – The Democrat-controlled House voted Thursday to overturn regulations introduced by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos that critics said make it more difficult to get student loan forgiveness if a college suddenly closes.

The move to overturn DeVos' rules is unlikely to pass the GOP-controlled Senate. The White House suggested Trump is likely to veto the bill if it does.


January 15, 2020

Washington, D.C. – House Committee on Education and Labor member U.S. Rep. Susie Lee (Nev.-03) joined her committee colleagues yesterday in passing through committee the Runaway and Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act of 2019 (H.R. 5191)—a bipartisan proposal to reauthorize the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act of 1974 and empower states to strengthen and expand services for young people living through homelessness.

Issues: Congress