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On the recordDecember 13, 2018
like my colleagues, I, too, want to honor and express my gratitude to my friend and colleague, Senator Dean Heller. Most people don't know that he has spent 30 years serving the great State of Nevada. I have heard everyone talk about how Dean loves Nevada. There is no doubt that if you just have an initial conversation with Dean Heller, you will learn about Nevada and his love for Nevada and why it is a wonderful place to live. He has advocated for the people of Carson City as a member of our Nevada State Assembly. He served as Nevada's secretary of state, where he made Nevada the first State in the Nation to adopt paper records for electronic voting machines. In Congress, Dean has fought tirelessly on behalf of our Nation's veterans, as we have heard, first as a Representative for Nevada's Second Congressional District and then as a United States Senator. I have watched Dean and have had the honor to work with him now across the aisle. When I first came to the Senate as a junior Senator, he warmly welcomed me. We had a conversation about how we could work together-- although we don't see eye to eye on everything, but how we could work together for the best interests of the State of Nevada. He made a commitment then, and he followed through on that commitment. So together we have worked to do so many things on behalf of the great people of the State of Nevada. We worked on critical infrastructure.…
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Catherine Cortez Masto
Democratic · Nevada
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Dec 13, 2018

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