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Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev., will announce a new bill on Wednesday that would authorize more than $900 million in federal funding for creating and strengthening community programs aimed at curbing gun violence.
Horsford will lead the bill in the House, while New Jersey senator and 2020 presidential candidate Cory Booker will helm the Senate's version. Both stressed the importance of the programs on neighborhoods of color, where residents are disproportionately affected by gun violence. They will introduce the legislation next week.
When U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford hears from his constituents, the top issue they bring up is bringing down the cost of health care, the second-term congressman said in a recent meeting with the Las Vegas Sun editorial board.
Horsford, a Democrat who represents the vast 4th Congressional District that stretches the width of Nevada, from Utah to California, and from North Las Vegas in the south to the upper reaches of White Pine County, said the topic is the same no matter where his constituents call home.
In 2013, only a few months after first coming to Congress, I was told I would need major heart surgery due to an underlying health condition. I was 40 years old, in good health, and had no way to know this was coming or to prepare for it beforehand.
RENO (AP) — A Nevada congressman is calling for Energy Secretary Rick Perry's resignation after the department acknowledged low-level radioactive waste that was shipped to a site north of Las Vegas may have been mislabeled and out of compliance with safety regulations for years.
Horsford hears from vets about what they need
Around a table at Congressman Steven Horsford's North Las Vegas office sat a dozen-or-so veterans who call Nevada home.
Andy LeDuc is one of them. He served in Vietnam from 1970 to 1972.
"Veterans need a lot of help," LeDuc told me.
535 people at the U.S. Capitol have to sign off on the spending deal that would head off another shutdown.
Las Vegas Democrat Steven Horsford is one of them.
"The legislation is not perfect, but it does what we need to do, which is to fund our government through the rest of the fiscal year," the Congressman said from Washington, part of News 3's regular update from our DC Delegation called "Connect to Congress."
Horsford represents North Las Vegas and a good chunk of rural Nevada.
During his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump dug in on the border security fight, showing little willingness to compromise on his demand for a border wall that led to a government shutdown.
Federal agencies could be shuttered again by presidential edict if lawmakers can't reach a deal by their Feb. 15 deadline, leaving 800,000 federal workers, once more, without a paycheck.
Ante una gran cantidad de familiares, amigos, oficiales electos, líderes comunitarios y ciudadanos interesados en el bienestar de la gente, Steven Horsford prestó juramento como congresista por el Distrito 4 de Nevada. La ceremonia tuvo lugar el sábado 19 de enero de 2019.
A week after Democratic Rep. Steven Horsford was appointed to the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, the panel announced he will also be one of five members to serve on the House Budget Committee.
"These two committees are at the center of this Congress' efforts to reduce out-of-pocket health care costs and craft a federal budget that puts government back on the side of the people," Horsford said in a release. "I'm grateful for the opportunity to give Southern Nevadans a voice on these important panels."
Rep. Steven Horsford will be the first Nevada congressman to serve on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee since former Rep. Shelley Berkley left Congress six years ago.
Seats on the Ways and Means Committee are highly sought after by lawmakers, because of its jurisdiction over key economic policy issues like tax, trade and health care issues.