It is horrific that in this day and age we have individual communities that don't have either water or sewer infrastructure.
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.
it is the investors that are demanding to know this. Aren't they entitled to have this information?
People call you and your colleagues heroes for a reason. You are heroes of the heart, and I thank you for being here.
I think the conversation we are having today is crucial if we are going to really bring back that manufacturing...
We are going to have to look at making the pass-through rates more competitive.
The American Innovation and Jobs Act is also a great start to bolstering the R&D Credit.
Being able to obtain these critical minerals and resources domestically, we all know, will help incentivize domestic manufacturing and technology.
The FORWARD Act provides an enhanced R&D Credit for U.S. companies to the extent they also manufacture in this country.
I have introduced legislation because I think we need to have a national strategy and a clear strategy on electric vehicle framework.
I think this is an area where we can grow our workforce and train them, create jobs--create new jobs--transition the skills to these jobs, which will benefit our workforce as well.
Is there a role for Congress to play here to ensure that we are addressing the needed winterization and weatherization across the country?
I also agree with my good colleague, Senator King, on electric vehicles. There is potential there.
I think the area that Congress should reflect on and potentially take action on is to think about how that extends into the natural gas and fuel sectors.
Particularly for young adults, do retail broker-dealers provide enough education and disclosure to individual consumers or should there be more?
Do you think that anybody under the age of 21 should be allowed to engage in the stock market, particularly what we have seen with Robinhood, a young man who was only 20 years of age committing suicide because he felt he overextended…
I am listening to all of the comparisons with the casinos particularly across this country, but knowing one thing, our casinos do not allow anybody that is under the age of 21 to gamble, and there is a reason. We want to protect our youth.
The question is not a wholesale indictment of markets generally or of Wall Street generally.
unemployment really has nothing to do with whether you have a livable wage or not and whether you are living at the poverty level or below that poverty level.





