I appreciate the bipartisan legislation that is coming our way from the Chairwoman and Senator Rounds to look at reforming some of the Rural Housing Services Act.
Catherine Cortez Masto
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Catherine Cortez Masto is the junior United States senator from Nevada, having taken office on January 3, 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she made history as the first Latina senator in U.S. history. Before her election to the Senate, Cortez Masto served as the Attorney General of Nevada from 2007 to 2015, where she focused on consumer protection and public safety issues. She has been an advocate for various policies, including healthcare access, immigration reform, and economic development in Nevada.
S. 923, the Better Mental Health Care for Americans Act, which proposes waiving the cost sharing for patients
S. 1378, the COMPLETE Care Act introduced by Senator Cortez Masto and Senator Cornyn.
The Collaborative Care Model (CoCM) that provides early identification and treatment of mental health and SUD needs
I appreciate your comments regarding the burnout issue and the preauthorization.
I am concerned that the telehealth and expanded primary care alone will not meet our workforce needs.
It is a great discussion. I had the opportunity to listen in my office to a lot of the discussion this morning.
The Interior Department has wasted a considerable amount of time and resources on oil and gas leases that generate little returns for American taxpayers.
I hear from my Republican colleagues about the importance of Biden's clean energy economy when they did not support the legislation in the first place.
We have to make sure our cattle ranchers and our ranchers and farmers, their voices are heard and their businesses are not going to be limited in any way, whatsoever.
We have to work together, and I think there is an opportunity for us to work together, but I am also going to challenge you when I disagree with the BLM.
Thank you for working with me and other members of the Nevada delegation on the designation of the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in Southern Nevada.
I think that there has been a pattern in this country of making mitigation funds available only following disasters.
We need to fix that, because that answer might have worked when the Stafford Act was put in place in the 1980s.
In President Biden's emergency declaration for Nevada, it notably left out one of our affected counties, which is Churchill County.
The Nevada Department of Insurance earlier this year urged Nevadans to get flood insurance.
This year, Nevada and other Western States have seen record-breaking amounts of precipitation, with the snowpack levels at 144 percent higher than average.
I could not agree more after taking a look at this program, and what I know, in my State, after talking to members of our housing coalition, it needs to be reformed and reauthorized.
22 million American families live in manufactured homes, and many of those are rural communities.
I appreciate the bipartisan legislation that is coming our way from the Chairwoman and Senator Rounds to look at reforming some of the Rural Housing Services Act.
We would be happy to collaborate with Senator Cortez Masto on exploring policy solutions around Medicaid, medical debt collections, and credit score-related questions.
We would be happy to collaborate with Senator Cortez Masto on exploring policy solutions around Medicaid, medical debt collections, and credit score-related questions.
The Federal Government needs to work together across interagencies to make sure it is not just the HOME program but other programs too, that when people are deployed there is not a penalty for that.





