Each Cabinet-level nominee must go through a public hearing in the relevant Senate committee and then be confirmed by the Senate as part of the upper chamber’s “advise and consent” duty.
U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto has reintroduced a bill that would require inaugural committees to disclose how they spend their money ahead of the inauguration of Donald Trump.
Nev., asked President-elect Donald Trump’s energy secretary nominee, Chris Wright, to acknowledge the “failed Yucca Mountain project is
U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen have introduced a bill that would exempt tips from federal income taxes.
U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto have reintroduced a bill to prevent the storage of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.
Department of Housing and Urban Development nominee Eric Scott Turner said his main goal would be to tackle the housing shortage.
U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) has introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at providing tax relief for Nevada taxpayers affected by state-level na
WASHINGTON – Several Senate Democrats from swing states joined with Republicans Friday to clear the final hurdle to passing the Laken Riley Act, which would require U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain noncitizens who commit certain crimes.
On Tuesday, U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.) reintroduced the bipartisan Western Wildfire Support Act, which Cortez Masto first introduced in 2021. This critical legislation would provide comprehensive resources to prevent wildfires,
The Senate voted Friday to advance the Laken Riley Act, putting Republicans a step closer to sending the first bill of the 119th Congress to President-elect Trump for his signature next week and
A final vote in the Senate is likely to be on Jan. 20, when Donald Trump is sworn in as president. The Laken Riley Act would then go back to the House.
The bill would mandate federal detention of undocumented immigrants merely accused of crimes such as shoplifting