Catherine Cortez Masto

I think it would be pretty big news if the President of the United States... would sign his first bill...

Does that affect your business if we don't?

I think one area that we don't focus enough on--again sometimes a branding issue--is organized labor.

I think we absolutely need to address this issue of skills gap and do whatever we can to prepare the workforce for the future.

We definitely need to get that board functioning.

Investing in Interstate 11 is not fixing it first, it is investing in new projects that we need in infrastructure across the country.

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit with me.

I wholeheartedly share, and I know that Secretary Chao shares as well, the concern that many people have about access to transportation in rural areas of our country.

I do think it is an area that needs to be addressed.

This whole concept of food deserts concerns me.

I have worked with as Attorney General looking at issues affecting the health of Native communities, particularly our youth.

This is a fantastic panel. I just wanted the opportunity, however, to introduce all of you to one of the panelists from the great State of Nevada.

You have now hundreds of thousands of people across the country who have this status where they are able to work...

If we are interested in promoting economic growth, does it make sense to severely cut investments in community infrastructure?

I am going to be there fighting for them every step of the way.

What will be the impact of cuts to these types of programs in the communities you work in?

We need to find ways to invest in Americans and to make that investment where it counts, and where it counts for growth is you have to have a faster labor force participation rate--a higher labor force participation rate and faster labor…

I am not for a wholesale rollback of Dodd-Frank just because we can.

I think we should be open to best practices wherever they are.

The national policy on cybersecurity is uncoordinated and unfocused.

I would appreciate more of a direct interaction at the state level and not through different task forces or multi-levels.

This is an area that I worked in as the Attorney General of the State of Nevada and something that I saw from a state perspective that we needed to address but was always concerned about the federal interaction.

In Nevada, we have lithium mining and it is important to both a booming technology industry--we have Tesla there as well as our geothermal companies that procure an abundant amount of geothermal resources in my state.

It's been lengthening here in the U.S. from five to seven, now to seven to ten. And this really is hurting investment.

What is it, specifically, that we can do at the federal level to streamline it or are there duplicative processes?