With Republicans taking control of both houses of Congress and the White House, Amodei will be the most influential Nevadan in the Capitol. And his mission goes beyond his Nevada priorities — his position as chair of the Homeland Security subcommittee in the Appropriations Committee will be more important, and scrutinized, than ever, as he’s tasked with funding the agencies that President-elect Donald Trump plans to deploy toward his mass deportation campaign.

The lame duck period also provides the senators with their last opportunities to make requests of the outgoing president — important, given that many constituents are calling on Biden to Trump-proof the federal government with new regulations or policies, and that the next president will be far less inclined to listen to feedback from Democratic senators.

The Social Security bill on Nov. 12 won bipartisan support in the House, 327-75 — with all four Nevadans in support. Here's what to know about the legislation, which would affect more than 45,000 Nevadans, and what could happen next.

The committee votes are the first marker of how senators feel about the bills. The Washoe lands bill passed 10-9, on a party-line vote, while the Clark bill was a more bipartisan endeavor, passing 13-6. Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Steve Daines (R-MT) joined all Democrats to advance the measure.

To win the role, Lee will face Rep. Greg Landsman (D-OH), who just won a second term representing Cincinnati and its red suburbs, and Rep. Kim Schrier (D-WA), who, like Lee, is going into her fourth term and represents western Washington, including Seattle exurbs.

AP sat down separately with lawmakers, three Republicans including Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) and three Democrats, to hear what it's like on Capitol Hill and what they can do to make it better.

Although former President Donald Trump won the district in 2016, Lee has represented it since 2019, winning re-election in 2020 by 3 percentage points and by 4 points in 2022, after it was redrawn to be more favorable to Democrats.  

Moderators asked questions on a slew of policy areas, but the two frequently did not answer questions directly, with Rosen often touting her record, and Brown switching gears to criticize Rosen for helping pass the Biden administration.

From July through September, Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) raised about $3.5 million more than her GOP opponent, Sam Brown. In the three House races in Southern Nevada, Democrats raked in hundreds of thousands more than their opponents.

Two years ago, Dina Titus (D-NV) defeated Mark Robertson, a retired Army colonel, by more than 5 percentage points. National Republicans have ignored the race, but Robertson thinks he has better odds this time around.

For the first time since 1998, no Democrat is running for the reliably Republican Northern Nevada district. Instead, Amodei is facing a nonpartisan challenge.

The event was billed as a place to honor and remember the more than 1,200 people killed a year ago, but Johnson’s speech focused little on the attack itself and more on the importance of God and America’s “weakness” on the global stage.

A bill to keep federal funds flowing to Lake Tahoe for another 10 years is now awaiting the president’s signature after successful passage in both chambers.

Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV) moved to censure Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) after a public confrontation with the Louisiana Republican about a racist post on X in which he called Haitians “thugs” and told them to “get their ass out of our country” before Inauguration Day.

Some senators’ currency is media attention; others are known for their erudite mastery of a policy niche; some operate on ruthless instinct. Rosen’s approach is all about friendliness — but, as Harris alluded to, kindness can be killer.

Adelson, the wife of the late gaming magnate Sheldon Adelson and an ardent supporter of her native Israel, has been among the chief financiers of Trump’s political ambitions.

Horsford’s plan, unlike Republican-led proposals to solely exempt tips from federal taxation, includes eliminating the federal tipped subminimum wage, aiming to improve tipped workers’ pay by raising their baseline earnings and easing their tax burden.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) proposed a six-month stopgap with attached legislation requiring proof of citizenship when registering to vote — a nonstarter with Democrats, who point out that noncitizen voting is already illegal and incredibly rare. 

Nearly two-thirds of Nevada voters support continuing military assistance to Ukraine — a key political issue that has divided the Republican Party and will be a major international issue for the next president.

A train of up-and-coming Democratic stars stopped by the Nevada delegation’s breakfasts in Chicago this week to address the Silver State delegates whose influence will be paramount come the next competitive Democratic presidential primary.