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 know you wanted time to get in there and take a look and figure out your priorities.
The available evidence to date does not lend support to the argument that the Community Reinvestment Act is a root cause of the subprime crisis.
If you are appointed to a 14-year term on the Federal Reserve, will you seek to tax people who choose to maintain a cash reserve?
Anything else that you are doing? Long-term plans to address their energy needs there in Puerto Rico?
We can support the local communities who have to figure this out and then help to share that information.
What exactly could be done to better protect vulnerable communities, and can you elaborate a little bit more on that?
In Nevada we actually have an Energy Bill of Rights that allows consumers to generate, export and store renewable energy on their property.
We felt, the Governor, many of us, including some of our Congressional delegates, that they were exploiting a regulatory loophole to classify that waste as low level hazard so that they can bury it in shallow graves there when in actuality…
And if you believe that safety should take precedence as well, do you believe that safety and the sound science if science educates it is not secure and safe to be stored in a certain location that that should take precedence?
Do you believe local governments and key stakeholders and Indian tribes should have a say in whether waste is going to be located in their state or not?