And while three-fourths of whites responded in a recent Federal Reserve survey that they were doing at least OK financially in 2017--at least OK, only two-thirds of African Americans and Hispanics responded that way.
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.
Nevada is a big proponent of battery technology, and as you well know, we have a large battery factory, Tesla, the Gigafactory there in Nevada.
We recently created an Energy Bill of Rights in the State of Nevada that actually protects home energy generation and storage.
I have seen here, as we have had these hearings, that State oversight is even more necessary now.
I agree with my colleague Senator Scott and the concern about too many adults have credit invisible and unscorable credit, and I think that is harmful in so many different ways.
I agree with my colleagues--this concern that all of this data is being collected on all of us individually, and we have no control over it.
So this is not something that either one of your organizations is looking into as something that is harmful to individual consumers or small businesses?
Thank you, Mr. Chair and Ranking Member for, I agree, this important discussion.
I am supportive of the legislation and look forward to seeing what comes from the fruit of you getting together.
Due to the high public interest, I am told that the Forest Service extended the comment period through April 23, 2018.
I understand there has been an overwhelming majority of people who have submitted comments that are opposed to the drilling.
I can tell you right now I have concerns for the conversation that we had with H.R. 4015, but do support the Cybersecurity Disclosure Act of 2017 and Expanding Access to Capital for Rural Job Creators Act.
Change policy to expand the overall pool of accredited investors, but also reduce the proportion, qualifying solely by virtue of income and wealth alone.
I was pleased to lead this bill with Senator Tillis, and I also want to thank Senators Heitkamp, Peters, Toomey, and Heller, who cosponsored it.
One of the real challenges that we face in the Department of Energy is you have, say, the Office of Science working on a bioenergy issue.
I don't see this proposal as eliminating the support for renewable energy and energy efficiency.
It is so great to see and hear a federal agency that is actually focused on workforce and how to develop it.
Hydropower accounts for about 40 percent of the renewable energy that is produced in Nevada.
I think that is a critical relationship, particularly as it pertains to State law enforcement.
I do understand generally the concern in particular with regard to 5G and our supply chains, that there is a need to have network security.





