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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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Jan 22, 2018

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?

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Jan 22, 2018

I know you wanted time to get in there and take a look and figure out your priorities.

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Jan 22, 2018

I'm wondering if you can talk a little bit about these new technologies that show promise for safety and security.

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Jan 22, 2018

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.

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Jan 22, 2018

Anything else that you are doing? Long-term plans to address their energy needs there in Puerto Rico?

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Jan 22, 2018

We can support the local communities who have to figure this out and then help to share that information.

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Jan 22, 2018

What exactly could be done to better protect vulnerable communities, and can you elaborate a little bit more on that?

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Jan 22, 2018

I'm a firm believer in data and metrics.

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Jan 22, 2018

In Nevada we actually have an Energy Bill of Rights that allows consumers to generate, export and store renewable energy on their property.

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Jan 17, 2018

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?

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Jan 17, 2018

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…

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Jan 17, 2018

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?

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Jan 16, 2018

I appreciate and applaud the launch of FinCEN Exchange.

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Jan 16, 2018

We need to ensure that our tribal communities have the resources they need to thrive.

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Jan 16, 2018

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…

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Jan 16, 2018

We need to have increased funding to support tribal capacity to develop and sustain food sovereignty initiatives throughout Indian Country.

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Jan 16, 2018

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.

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Jan 16, 2018

this idea of how traditional foods can really address diabetes, obesity, that we see in our tribal communities.

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Jan 16, 2018

We believe that if you are born Native you are born into politics.

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Jan 16, 2018

Is DOJ involved in the FinCEN Exchange?

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Jan 16, 2018

You are willing to address it--listen to them and address some of the concerns, too?

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Jan 16, 2018

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…

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Jan 16, 2018

A very important discussion we are having.

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Jan 16, 2018

I'm a strong supporter of the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017 (SESTA), which clarifies the Communications Decency Act (CDA)...

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Jan 16, 2018

increased investment in SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, can save money in other ways like lowering health care costs.

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