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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.

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May 3, 2023

We need to strengthen our financial watchdogs' ability to impose fines, ban bad actors from the banking industry, and claw back compensation.

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May 3, 2023

I appreciate all of you agreeing to support the Energy Consumer Protection Act because I do think it is important to provide FERC with additional authority to go after traders that repeatedly manipulate electricity and natural gas markets.

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May 3, 2023

So, in your view, how are contracting issues driving the supply problem in rural areas? How do we address that?

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May 3, 2023

I rise today to talk about the solar tariff CRA, which, unfortunately, is misguided and is going to have a devastating impact on States like Nevada, as you well know. H.J. Res. 39 to end the pause on solar tariffs is really a misguided…

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May 3, 2023

I appreciate your comments regarding the burnout issue and the preauthorization.

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May 3, 2023

The Connecting Our Medical Providers with Links to Expand Tailored and Effective (COMPLETE) Care Act (S. 1378), recently introduced by Senators Cortez Masto and Cornyn, would expand access to the CoCM and other evidence-based models by…

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May 3, 2023

The Connecting Our Medical Providers with Links to Expand Tailored and Effective (COMPLETE) Care Act (S. 1378), recently introduced by Senators Cortez Masto and Cornyn, would expand access to the CoCM and other evidence-based models by…

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May 3, 2023

We cannot--we will not--let that happen again.

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May 3, 2023

We must modernize our enforcement rules to match the size and complexity of banks with billions of dollars in assets.

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May 3, 2023

I appreciate your comments regarding the burnout issue and the preauthorization.

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May 3, 2023

So, in your view, how are contracting issues driving the supply problem in rural areas? How do we address that?

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May 2, 2023

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.

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May 2, 2023

The Nevada Department of Insurance earlier this year urged Nevadans to get flood insurance.

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May 2, 2023

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.

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May 2, 2023

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.

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May 2, 2023

Do you think we need more resources?

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May 2, 2023

This year, Nevada and other Western States have seen record-breaking amounts of precipitation, with the snowpack levels at 144 percent higher than average.

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May 2, 2023

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.

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May 2, 2023

At some point there is someone that says if I avoid acting, then the Federal Government will come pay the full bill for me.

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May 2, 2023

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.

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May 2, 2023

They are environmentalists, for the very reason that you just said.

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May 2, 2023

22 million American families live in manufactured homes, and many of those are rural communities.

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May 2, 2023

It is about leaving the place better for the next generation, and my colleague Senator Collins and I had asked the GAO how much was climate change costing the U.S. Government, and it is in the billions of dollars.

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May 2, 2023

The Department has issued guidance on how BLM plans to implement reforms to the oil and gas leasing systems.

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May 2, 2023

I am concerned that the telehealth and expanded primary care alone will not meet our workforce needs.

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