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The Forest Service's budget eliminates the Legacy Roads and Trails line item, and counties in Nevada will not have the funds to make these repairs if this is zeroed out.

Can you ensure that numerous individuals, stakeholders, and businesses will have their voices counted during this review process?

I am concerned about the prospect of opening 54,000 acres of U.S. Forest land in Nevada's Ruby Mountains for oil and gas leasing.

Welcome, it is great to see you here.

today, I rise to honor Maj. Stephen Del Bagno, a U.S. Thunderbird pilot who was killed on April 4, 2018, when his F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed at the Nevada Test and Training Range, which is north of Nellis Air Face Base. At just 34, Major…

Today I rise to remember the life of Sonny Melton. Sonny was lucky to find the love of his life while working at the Henry County Medical Center in Paris, Tennessee. As a certified nurse, Sonny would often assist his wife, Dr. Heather…

I represent Nevada, which is within the San Francisco Federal Reserve District. We are one of the most diverse districts in the Nation.

I am very concerned that cost-benefit analysis fails to capture the human and economic cost of massive financial system failure.

I want to make sure that those folks are not discriminated against. I want to make sure that they are not redlined.

But there is no independent verification that you are actually doing it, correct?

And how can we in the public sphere ensure that you are doing that?

So let me ask you this: If S. 2155, which excludes 85 percent of banks and credit unions from reporting HMDA, becomes law, can you ensure that banks making fewer than 500 mortgage loans a year are not engaged in redlining or other types of…

I will tell you, in Nevada, from 2007 to 2014, there was no Federal oversight predicting what was going to happen and then there helping us address the issue.

Would you agree that the Fed underestimated the human costs of a potential financial crisis prior to 2008?

I think sound data is critically important in informing the policies and decisions that you will be making.

Washington is repeating a failed pattern of boom and bust.

When big banks are flush with profits, as they are now, policymakers should be preparing them for rough times ahead.

Somehow 'tailoring' only seems to go in one direction these days. It happens to be the direction that Wall Street wants.