Catherine Cortez Masto

We are fortunate enough today to hear and have Barbara Buckley, who is not only a friend of mine but was one of the chief architects of these reforms on guardianship in the State of Nevada.

Thank you, Chairman Collins and Ranking Member Casey. And I so appreciate you holding this hearing on an issue that, as you well know, is very important to me, to Nevada, and to all of us.

Is that the best practice, though? A risk-limiting audit of all the audits, is that the best practice for identifying?

Yes. No, that makes sense to me.

I appreciate that because I know just as the Attorney General of Nevada, we represented the Secretary of State's Office, but there was an election integrity task force and so similarly there are best practices where you can pool the…

I want to stay on the topic of election security and particularly in Nevada, I know many of our communities and our counties are rural and there are many challenges in our rural communities, one of them being a lack of resources…

I appreciate the Commission's attention to my request with six of my colleagues for the FTC to investigate the practice of pet leasing.

This is our future, and we need to get a handle on this.

I do support additional resources. I think you are understaffed for just the very reasons we talked about today.

Thanks to the leadership of members of this Committee including Senators Cortez Masto and Capito, the FTC can now bring civil penalty authority to bear when companies market sham opioid treatments and services.

But as an attorney, that is what you are required to do under the rules of professional responsibility.

I don't know whether it is going to be proposed either. I am just saying if it comes before you, would you recuse yourself?

Can I get a commitment that if you do get confirmed, you will come out to Yucca Mountain and you will listen to both sides, look at the science and let the science decide, really, what should happen there and not a political decision that…

Thank you very much and thank you to my colleague, I appreciate it.

I appreciate that. Coming from Nevada, and the former States Attorney there, that is exactly what some of our local jurisdictions did.

I don't think any of the legislation we are talking about today is unreasonable at all.

I see it lacking in the State of Nevada. I think it is a resource issue.

I just came from northern Nevada and meeting with some of the tribal communities and they had no idea.

We must ensure that the voices of Indian Country are heard in this process.

I think it is a misnomer calling these things 'blockchains.'

Senator Toomey and I introduced the Fight Illicit Networks and Detect Trafficking Act.

The reason why I asked the question, because I think it is important as we go down this path and we are looking at the use of this new technology that we continue to study it.

So it is going to be incumbent upon those businesses, basically what you are saying, working with law enforcement to identify when this technology they are utilizing is engaging in illicit activity?

I appreciate that and the need to engage the FCC. I mean, that is what I am hearing here.

Where is FERC with respect to this issue, and what are you looking to do after hearing the panelists and this discussion today?