Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) introduced a bill today to create a federal grant program to fund the expunging or sealing of state-level cannabis offenses — using federal dollars to achieve a goal of legislative Democrats who passed a similar bill in 2023 but were stymied by Gov. Joe Lombardo's (R) veto pen.

Several Republican challengers have made six figure loans to their own campaigns, as they try to catch up to the massive war chests of the Democratic incumbents.

In a Wednesday hearing on the management of spent nuclear fuel in the House Energy & Commerce Committee — no Nevadans are members — leaders took turns lamenting that the Yucca site, first chosen as the sole site in 1987 and approved for funding in 2002, still houses no nuclear waste due to the power of multiple generations of Nevada politicians.

Some of Schumer’s priorities overlap with Nevada’s senators’ desires for the next few months — but they also have bills targeting Nevada-specific initiatives they want to see get passed.

The endorsement appears to be Lombardo’s first of a federal Nevada Democrat’s bill since he took office in 2023.

The combined $187 million is roughly in line with the $182.5 million that Nevada’s delegation secured last fiscal year. All of the project funds were requested by the state’s two senators, with a handful having House sponsors as well.

More than five months have passed since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel declared war on Hamas. In the U.S., tensions have simmered among Democrats over the Biden administration’s handling of the war and the president’s continued support of Israel, as the death toll in Gaza has climbed to more than 31,000.

The 2024 cycle will require Senate Democrats to defend seven competitive seats, including in states where they have become endangered species. Given the larger map, will Nevada still matter?

President Joe Biden will travel to both Reno and Las Vegas next week as he barnstorms battleground states this month, his campaign announced Thursday.

Those digital gains are imperiled by a familiar obstacle: congressional inaction. Funding for the ACP is expected to run out in May, causing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to begin winding down the program; it stopped taking new applicants in early February. If Congress does not act to renew the program’s funding, hundreds of thousands of Nevadans could see their Internet bills increase or their service cut.

With the attention of the presidential election shining on Nevada and specifically on Black voters, Horsford sees 2024 as an opportunity to promote his party’s record to voters and start laying out what he calls a Day One agenda for a second Biden administration

Kihuen’s hiring raised eyebrows across the state’s higher education system, with at least one state legislator saying she was uncomfortable with Kihuen’s hiring in a job that would bring him to Carson City.

Democratic Sens. Jacky Rosen and Catherine Cortez Masto and Republican Rep. Mark Amodei are concerned about the plan's impact on jobs, mail ballot-heavy elections and the economy.

None of Nevada's six delegation members are planning to retire; barring a surprise retirement (or more likely an election loss), retirements represent an opportunity for them to raise their profiles within their committees. 

The IRS Advisory Council suggested the agency raise the tax reporting threshold on slot machine jackpots, an effort congressional leader have sought for nearly a decade.

I asked some of Harry Reid’s former colleagues and staffers to explain how Reid the politician, an avid athlete himself, might compare to Andy Reid the coach.

The political dynamics now offer Democrats the opportunity to message their willingness to fund border agencies and curb the asylum system while painting Republicans — who have long made securing the border a campaign issue — as the obstacle to doing so.

With Biden’s presidency recently hitting the three-year mark, I thought it would be a good time to talk to four experts who evaluated Nevada’s economic recovery over the last three years. 

Monday would have marked the 51st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s now overturned decision in Roe v. Wade, and Nevada Democrats were unified in their message — abortion is on the ballot in 2024.

Members of the Nevada delegation I spoke with this week expressed optimism about the contours of the deal, with Democratic members willing to overlook reservations in favor of reviving the child tax credit extension.