As a former Attorney General, I have to be concerned about those individuals who are out there that literally are using it to skirt around State laws.
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.
I think it is so important that we make these investments now in the infrastructure that is necessary to utilize the technology that is going to bring us to a cleaner environment.
Nevada is primed with its innovation on this new technology really to create jobs, lead in this technological age, and contribute economically and reduce our carbon footprint.
I am very proud of Nevada. It is leading the way in electric vehicle innovation production, and I am proud to support that.
Flexibility for new zero-emission facilities to utilize either a production tax credit or an investment tax credit is critical.
I appreciate what you are saying. I just, I needed to understand that the Executive Order is not impacting those leases.
I have a bill that is called the End Speculative Oil and Gas Leasing Act, and it prohibits leasing on lands with no or low potential for development.
I believe it is critical that we absolutely look at this for emerging technologies.
I think coming from Nevada, 14 percent of the people that live in Nevada are organized labor.
I do believe there is an importance here with the public-private partnership that is essential in helping deploy these technologies.
Let us give them the opportunity for these new and different types of advanced technology jobs.
We need to transition those skills to the jobs of the future in this new kind of innovation economy with green energy.
As you may be aware, Nevada is one of the largest geothermal energy producers in the country and I believe we have significant untapped potential.
I am working on legislation to establish this interagency task force that will develop really a strategy for emerging technology standard setting.
Every community deserves frequent, high-quality transit service that builds connections to opportunities.
Safety, security, cybersecurity, privacy, I mean, it is all wrapped into this new technology and we should be really leading in this space.
In my view, addressing these impacts should be at the top of both of your lists.
I started working with Senator Cornyn on legislation that would help States stand up crisis services and make them sustainable by integrating them into both public and commercial insurance plans.
I think one of the places where the Deputy Secretary's office has a real opportunity is in making sure that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
It is incredibly timely for us to be discussing these issues and working toward a bipartisan transportation reauthorization.
We have underinvested in both our physical and human infrastructure for far too long.
It is important that we do this equitably because the infrastructure needs of one region, State, or community might be different than the needs of another community.
I will continue the reading of Martin Luther King's letter from the Birmingham jail. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience. You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This…





