I think it is important for all of us, as we come to address many of these issues.
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 now there is this balance we need to find to figure out how we continue to work together to address these evolving crimes and activity that's happening on the internet.
I absolutely 100 percent support that. I think it is incredibly important, actually, in order to actually address the problem.
And so can you address your targeted monitoring? How do you--is that the same thing or is it something different?
I agree, the technology gives us the ability now to be targeted to also focus on the risk-based, and we do need law enforcement at the table when we are having this conversation.
My understanding--and this may be wrong, but President Trump has been historically slow in submitting nominations to the Senate; 250 out of 624 positions requiring Senate confirmation are still without a nominee.
Senator Lankford's proposal is an opportunity to demonstrate that United States Senators can remember that the institution is more important than our own opinions.
My understanding and concern is that this particular administration has not engaged in proper vetting of some of these nominees.
I rise today with my colleagues to really put a face to what we are talking about here when we in Washington are making decisions that are impacting the real lives of the people back home in our States. I have to thank my colleague from…
Do you need additional tools? Should we be giving you additional tools to address the concerns that we are hearing today?
Workforce development has been a focus of mine since I've entered the Senate, and so has innovation.
The concern is this. That is a pristine area that has for decades been utilized by people in Nevada who support continuing the protection and do not support opening it up to oil and gas leasing.
It seems like it's such common sense, but we just don't do it, which is that collaboration and partnership...
I appreciate the comments today, because this is something that I hear from both industries--streamlining our permitting processes, doing away with the duplication and how we can do the coordination better amongst the federal agencies to…
Obviously, we are standing at the edge of a technological revolution that we must ensure will, and there has been discussion, take our labor force with it.
I've proudly been leading a bipartisan legislation on drone expansion, the use of smart technology in transportation, and in trying to spur the next generation of women to be equal at the forefront of STEM, specifically computer…
My thought is that you are there to address the issues that we have heard today. Nothing else needs to be done other than to let your agency do its job and coordinate amongst the federal agencies.
the stressors on the families, when we are looking at closing things down and we are looking at a work force that--you had worked there for, what, 27 years?
I ask unanimous consent that the text of my motion to commit be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: Motion to Commit With Instructions Ms. Cortez Masto moves to…
As NOAA serves as co-chair of the Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force, how will you enforce its focus on aquatic invasive species issues?
Can I get your commitment to work closely with the various stakeholders in Nevada?





