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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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Nov 28, 2018

I would love to be part of that briefing to get some more information.

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Nov 28, 2018

It is this idea that instead of the regulators having this check-the-box mentality... we actually look at a risk-based approach.

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Nov 28, 2018

Would it be helpful if FinCEN were given authority to work with tribal law enforcement in addition to other law enforcement authorities, and why?

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Nov 28, 2018

I think it is something that we need to tackle.

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Nov 28, 2018

I appreciate your thoughts on the prosecution side and what we are trying to do to stop money laundering.

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Nov 27, 2018

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.

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Nov 27, 2018

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

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Nov 27, 2018

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…

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Nov 27, 2018

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.

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Nov 27, 2018

Data is key. I think it is key to everything that we do.

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Nov 27, 2018

Is there anything that the Federal Government can do to assist in distributing and encouraging some of these best practices?

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Nov 27, 2018

I would also like to thank our Senator Cortez Masto for her work as AG in regulating private professional guardians.

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Nov 27, 2018

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…

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Nov 27, 2018

The recommendation, one of them in there, is a national resource center, which is fantastic.

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Nov 26, 2018

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.

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Nov 26, 2018

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

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Nov 26, 2018

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

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Nov 26, 2018

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

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Nov 15, 2018

I rise to honor a dear friend. Her name was Emily Fay Reese, who passed away on November 3 at the young age of 44 after 8 years of battling colon cancer. Emily was a source of strength and a beacon of light in the Reno community. She…

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Nov 14, 2018

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

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Nov 14, 2018

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…

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Nov 14, 2018

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?

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Nov 14, 2018

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

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