Her opposition within the privacy of her office was so stringent — holding a “retaliat[ory]” staff meeting where she promised to impose stricter rules on office operations all while members’ requests went unmet — that staff members abandoned their unionization efforts entirely by the end of the year.

The division was evident even among Nevada’s usually harmonious Senate delegation — Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) announced Friday afternoon that she would vote against both the bill and cloture, the 60-vote threshold to end debate on the bill. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), meanwhile, announced she would support it.

Nevada Democrats are arguing that the best way for the DNC to move forward is to further elevate the Silver State. 

The biggest story in Congress this week? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a joint address from the House floor, earning cheers, boycotts from dozens of Democrats and massive protests near the Capitol.

The longer term solution, meanwhile, is to rip our primary elections out of the hands of those with far too much time on their hands so politicians don’t have to openly pander to the deranged few.

The move would mark a return to the governmental sphere after Kihuen exited Congress in the wake of a congressional ethics probe into sexual misconduct allegations in 2018.

In a historic vote, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was removed from his position leading the House of Representatives by a vote of 216-210 on Tuesday, with eight Republicans joining all House Democrats (including Nevada’s three Democratic members) to oust the speaker.

With an already congested two-lane ring road connecting small communities, what happens in the Tahoe Basin generally affects all of us — particularly when it comes to wildfires and extreme weather events.

If the U.S. defaults on its debt, the Treasury will be unable to make payments, potentially ranging from retirees’ Social Security to servicemembers’ pay at Nellis or Creech Air Force bases. And the longer-term implications could be even more devastating, with a default likely triggering a downgrade of U.S. credit, a rise in costs and even a global recession powered by a weak dollar and job losses.

Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV) moved his appropriations bill out of his subcommittee as members debated its worth as a proxy for broader spending fights, and Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) took her shot at ending a Republican blockade on military promotions.

House Republicans passed a debt limit bill by a one-vote margin, Nevada’s senators are calling for a redesignation of Salvadorans and Hondurans under the Temporary Protected Status program, and both are working on starting the cannabis banking conversation up again.

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

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

Throughout her campaign, Becker, a Republican, has railed against Democrats for high inflation, raised the alarm about excessive government spending and often tied Lee to unpopular national Democrats.

The latest campaign finance reports, filed with the Federal Election Commission earlier this week, mark the first look at congressional fundraising since a redistricting special session in November.

Former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, who famously despised goodbyes, earned a farewell Saturday befitting the man who rose from abject poverty in tiny Searchlight and went on to grace the hallways of Congress.

Three key races in Nevada — including a seat in the Senate and two in the House — may prove decisive as Republicans seek to gain and Democrats fight to keep control of a bitterly divided House and Senate.

Though the high court’s late Thursday decision places hundreds of thousands of tenants across the country at risk of eviction, Nevada tenants are still protect by AB486.

Nevadans have a history of high turnouts for in-person early voting — the last two presidential elections saw 69 percent of the overall turnout coming from early voting, with only 8 percent of votes cast in 2012 and 6.5 percent in 2016 of those being mail votes. This is the first general election in which Nevada mailed ballots on such a large scale, and it comes on the heels of a mostly mail-in primary election.

Nevada has increasingly been thought of as a blue state, and even Washoe County has swung bluer than it has in a long time in recent years. But Republicans and Democrats alike are taking Washoe County seriously this year.