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Washington, DC – Today, Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV) helped introduce the Equality Act, which will protect people from discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
Rep. Susie Lee released the following statement on the Equality Act:
"Everyone should be able to live a life free of harassment or discrimination. Despite progress, our LGBTQ community continues to lack basic protections. I am proud to support the Equality Act because it is past time to protect every single American from discrimination, regardless of who they are or the person they love."
Washington, DC - Rep. Susie Lee (NV-03) released the following statement after helping introduce the Dream and Promise Act, which will give Dreamers and TPS recipients a more certain future:
Washington, DC - Today, Rep. Susie Lee (NV-03) sent the following letters to President Trump asking him to include funding in his FY 2020 budget for reducing veterans suicides, treating the opioid epidemic among veterans, improving school infrastructure, increasing financial literacy, funding Title II of the Every Student Succeeds Act, and reauthorizing the Brand USA program:
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Representative Susie Lee (D-NV-03), Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), and Representatives Steven Horford (NV-04) and Mark Amodei (NV-02) introduced the bipartisan Jobs, Not Waste Act.
WASHINGTON — Nevada lawmakers tried to create a new roadblock to transforming Yucca Mountain into a nuclear waste repository on Thursday by introducing bills in the House and Senate that would require the government to study alternative uses of the site.
The Jobs, Not Waste Act is being spearheaded by Democrats Jacky Rosen in the Senate and Susie Lee in the House.
Members of Nevada's congressional delegation have continued to file legislation aimed at Yucca Mountain.
Sen. Jacky Rosen and Rep. Susie Lee, along with Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and Reps. Mark Amodei and Steven Horsford, introduced the Jobs, Not Waste Act, which would put a hold on any action on the Yucca Mountain site.
WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a resolution condemning bigotry and anti-Semitism, a measure seen as an indirect rebuke of statements about Israel made by Rep. Ilhan Omar that fractured the Democratic caucus and set off a furor that party leaders have struggled to contain.
The resolution was initially crafted to address statements by Omar, D-Minn., a freshman Muslim lawmaker who last week infuriated Jewish Democrats by saying pro-Israel advocates in Congress were giving their allegiance to a foreign country.
WASHINGTON — Nevada lawmakers will fire the first shot Tuesday in the expected legislative battle over Yucca Mountain in the new Congress.
The state's representatives and senators said Monday they are filing bills in the House and Senate that would require states, local governments and tribes to consent to housing a nuclear waste repository before the federal government could build a storage facility.
Nevada lawmakers have introduced a bill in Congress that would stop any attempt to revive the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site.
U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and Representative Dina Titus (D-NV), along with Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Representative Steven Horsford (D-NV), and Representative Susie Lee (D-NV) introduced the Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act in the United States Senate and U.S. House of Representatives.