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?
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.
I'm wondering if you can talk a little bit about these new technologies that show promise for safety and security.
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.
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.
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?
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…
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?
We need to ensure that our tribal communities have the resources they need to thrive.
So that's why I'm a strong supporter of the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017 (SESTA), which clarifies the Communications Decency Act (CDA) to allow state Attorneys General to retain their jurisdiction to prosecute those who…
We need to have increased funding to support tribal capacity to develop and sustain food sovereignty initiatives throughout Indian Country.
OK. And then the gaming industry and others have recommended--and I heard it at our last hearing--raising the currency transaction and suspicious activity reporting thresholds.
this idea of how traditional foods can really address diabetes, obesity, that we see in our tribal communities.
You are willing to address it--listen to them and address some of the concerns, too?
Can Congress do a better job? What else can we do to facilitate not only quality diabetes treatment and intervention programs with access to quality health food to combat the growing rate of obesity and the rate of diabetes in Indian…
I'm a strong supporter of the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017 (SESTA), which clarifies the Communications Decency Act (CDA)...
increased investment in SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, can save money in other ways like lowering health care costs.





