Shelley Berkley

Well, if it wasn't for your leadership we might not be here this evening doing this, so I thank you. Congresswoman, when you and I hear the beautiful song ``God Bless America,'' it means a great deal to us because I think every day God…

Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz, my family story is very much an American Jewish story. And not unlike so many millions of other American Jews that came to our shores from other places, my mother's side of the family comes from…

I rise today to join with Polish Americans, with our Nation and, indeed, with the whole world in expressing our deepest sympathies to the people of Poland following this weekend's tragedy that killed their President, the First Lady and a…

I thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your leadership. This legislation is yet another strong step towards economic recovery for Las Vegas, the State of Nevada, and the Nation. The provisions of this bill will spur the creation and growth of…

The State of Nevada is opposed to storing this Nation's nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. President Obama pulled the plug because, and only because there is no scientific evidence, and there never has been, that Yucca Mountain can…

I rise today in strong support of this resolution and the law enforcement personnel who put their lives at risk every day in order to protect their fellow Americans. Today, we honor two Nevadan heroes, Stanley Cooper and Joe Gardner, for…

During the campaign, President Obama pledged to Nevadans that he would kill the Yucca Mountain nuclear repository project. He has kept his word. Yesterday, the Energy Department moved to pull the license for the dump. The President's blue…

I represent the most unique city on the planet, the City of Las Vegas. It's a great place with great people, but we are hurting, and my constituents are angry. I've got the second highest unemployment rate in the country, the highest…

On behalf of Yucca Mountain Johnny and the people of the State of Nevada, I want to thank the President for putting the kibosh on the Yucca Mountain project, which would have shipped 77,000 tons of toxic nuclear radioactive waste across 43…

Things are very tough in Las Vegas right now. We have the second highest unemployment rate and the very highest mortgage foreclosure rate in the country. People are hurting. We rely on tourism to fuel our economy. It's our major industry…

a full, outright and permanent repeal of this tax is the best solution.

I know that in the State of Nevada, in my district, we do not have enough nephrologists, we do not have enough gastro guys, we do not have enough surgeons, and we do not have enough cardiac specialists or cancer doctors.

We need to be careful about unintended consequences in implementing reforms.

I think we all appreciate that if health care spending in our country continues to rise at the current rate as we baby boomers reach retirement, that the promised benefits under Medicare are unsustainable.

My district has the fastest growing senior population in the United States. We have no option but for Congress to take steps to ensure that seniors are able to see a doctor and receive appropriate care.

Where is the patient responsibility in any of this?

I support increasing incentives for primary care physicians. However, I do not agree that these incentives must or should be provided by lowering reimbursement to other providers.

Nuclear power is not a clean source of energy, because it has a toxic, lethal, radioactive byproduct, which is nuclear waste, that this nation has not figured out what it's going to do with.

I think moving toward renewable energy and energy independence is not only an environmental issue, which I believe it is, not only an economic issue, which I believe it is, but it's a national security imperative.

Without a safe solution to the nuclear issue, our attention should be on how to produce more clean energy, like solar, wind, and geothermal.

We must find a way to mitigate the economic impact on low- and middle-income families, which will face a disproportionate burden, and I look forward to being a part of the process.

Yucca Mountain is not an option, and I would submit to you that the State of Nevada will never be a repository for this nation's energy nuclear waste.

We have a system now that the hospitals hate, the doctors hate, and the patients hate.

If we don't fix this, we have a 20 percent cut coming up, and that is impossible to lay on the doctors.

The way we do healthcare in this country, in my opinion, is 'bass ackward'.