When President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union on Tuesday night, the audience will consist of special guests reflecting the Nevada delegation’s policy priorities, including people affected by police brutality and abortion bans. 

After a slow start to the congressional session, committee assignments have been finalized – and the Nevada delegation is well-represented across both chambers. Meanwhile, Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV) is leading the Congressional Black Caucus in renewed efforts to take on police brutality after the killing of Tyre Nichols.

With the authorization that allows federal funds to flow to the Tahoe Basin set to expire next year, Nevada’s congressional delegation and Tahoe stakeholders are hopeful they can pass a re-authorization this year.

The debt limit affects the entire economy and could jeopardize benefits and federal spending. Its outcome remains unknown.

As chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, Horsford's focus will be on implementation of the policies Democrats passed in the last Congress.

House Republicans began enacting their legislative agenda this week – most of which will be dead on arrival in the Democrat-controlled Senate.

Democratic California Rep. Ro Khanna introduced the resolution in Congress Tuesday to urge President Joe Biden to acknowledge the United States’ role in El Salvador’s 12-year civil war.

Happy New Year! The House of Representatives is ringing in 2023 with an episode of administrative dysfunction unseen since before the Civil War.

New text exchanges between self-proclaimed Nevada electors Jim DeGraffenreid and Shawn Meehan released by the January 6 Committee show their deteriorating belief in the Trump campaign to successfully challenge the results of the 2020 election, frustration with elected Republicans in Nevada, and fears over the optics of the insurrection.

vada will receive about $182.5 million in federal project funding through earmarks from its six members of Congress, sending funds to everything from several Nevada universities to highway and transit projects to sewer line extensions.

The Omnibus Travel and Tourism Act, sponsored by Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV), was first introduced over a year ago. The bill was included in the omnibus appropriations bill passed by the Senate Thursday, and is expected to pass in the House of Representatives Friday.

The January 6 Committee released transcripts of its interviews with Nevada GOP Chair Michael McDonald and national committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid about their roles in a 2020 fake elector scheme, demonstrating how Donald Trump’s campaign coordinated with the state GOP in an attempt to claim decisive electoral votes for Trump.

The Electoral Count Reform and Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2022 (ECRA) – the rare bill likely to pass because it already has the support of more than 10 Republicans – would revise election law to close loopholes that Trump and his allies attempted to exploit to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Congressional negotiators reached a topline number for a must-pass omnibus spending bill to keep the federal government operating, and successfully extend their deadline to Dec. 23, avoiding a weekend shutdown.

The marketplace set a record number of 101,000 enrollees in 2022, a 25 percent increase compared to 2021. National leaders are also working on “closing the gap” in health care after minority groups increased enrollment into the health care marketplace this year.

“The responsible expansion of the Navy’s Fallon Range Training Complex has been a major priority of the Navy for years,” Cortez Masto said. “I knew how vital this compromise was to both our national security and to the local economies and Tribal nations.”

This week was a busy one, as the House passed a critical defense bill, Sen. Raphael Warnock’s (D-GA) win secured a wider Democratic majority in the Senate, and Nevada’s congressional delegation tackled droughts and antisemitism.

“We can't really keep on waiting anymore. Something needs to happen. And it has to happen now,” Bovadilla said of Congress' lame duck session. “It's being at home without feeling that sense of security.”

This week, as Democrats and Republicans wait for the Dec. 6 Georgia Senate runoff to determine whether Democrats have a vote to spare in their majority, the Democratic caucus elected new leaders and adopted new rules, the Senate passed a LGBTQ+ rights bill, and both houses voted on legislation to avert a rail workers strike.

Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV) will be the first Nevadan to lead the powerful Congressional Black Caucus.