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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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Mar 27, 2017

I think we should be open to best practices wherever they are.

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Mar 27, 2017

If we are interested in promoting economic growth, does it make sense to severely cut investments in community infrastructure?

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Mar 27, 2017

This is an area that I worked in as the Attorney General of the State of Nevada and something that I saw from a state perspective that we needed to address but was always concerned about the federal interaction.

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Mar 27, 2017

We have the opportunity, right now, to seize on mineral supply independence.

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Mar 27, 2017

What is it, specifically, that we can do at the federal level to streamline it or are there duplicative processes?

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Mar 27, 2017

In Nevada, we have lithium mining and it is important to both a booming technology industry--we have Tesla there as well as our geothermal companies that procure an abundant amount of geothermal resources in my state.

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Mar 22, 2017

Most States, and particularly Nevada, have open-meeting laws, and they require any type of action taken by a commissioner to be put on the record for the public to understand.

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Mar 22, 2017

I believe that Government does not do enough of being transparent enough to the taxpayer to understand what is taking place.

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Mar 21, 2017

We are in the age of technology. It's going to continue to evolve, and we need to do a better job really training and preparing the workforce for the future.

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Mar 21, 2017

I was just home in Nevada, and one of the questions I repeatedly get from our small businesses is this is a space that they want to address and try to protect against.

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Mar 21, 2017

I am proud that in Nevada, for the first time, our Governor's Economic Development Agency partnered with the private sector and our system of higher education, so we're working together.

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Mar 21, 2017

I think the only way we can get them to essentially punch above their weight limit and do better is to get them better technology that preempts the execution of malicious code and stops the bad things from occurring that can harm their…

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