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April 18, 2024

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Steven Horsford (NV-04) introduced the Broadcast Varied Ownership Incentives for Community Expanded Service (VOICES) Act. The legislation will increase diversity among owners in the broadcasting industry by restoring mechanisms that encourage investment in broadcast stations owned by minorities and women. It will be introduced in the Senate by Senator Gary Peters (D-MI).

Issues:Economy

April 15, 2024

A new federal proposal from Nevada US Rep. Steven Horsford seeks to provide funding for states to support nursing home workers in a bid to keep qualified staff from leaving for other lines of work.


April 10, 2024

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Steven Horsford (NV-04) introduced the Nursing Home Workforce Support and Expansion Act. The bill would improve nursing home care by strengthening wages and benefits for long-term care workers. 

Issues:Health

April 10, 2024

WASHINGTON (KOLO) - Nevada Representative Steven Horsford has introduced a bill that would strengthen wages and benefits for long term care workers in a move he hopes will improve nursing home care for Nevada seniors.


April 10, 2024

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - Two of Nevada’s Representatives, Susie Lee and Steven Horsford, are expressing their dismay and anger over a decision rendered by the Arizona Supreme Court to revive an 1864 law criminalizing abortion at all stages of pregnancy.

Issues:Health

April 10, 2024

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - Two of Nevada’s Representatives, Susie Lee and Steven Horsford, are expressing their dismay and anger over a decision rendered by the Arizona Supreme Court to revive an 1864 law criminalizing abortion at all stages of pregnancy.

Tuesday’s decision will not go into effect for at least two weeks.

Lee had this to say about the decision:


April 9, 2024

Christine Dyken had just returned home after picking up her grandson from school, and she was stressed.

Dyken — who lives in a quiet corner of North Las Vegas with her daughter, Doreen, and 7-year-old Christopher — needed to move, and the process was overwhelming and expensive.

Doreen was getting divorced, and they’d been looking for a home they could move into quickly — but one that wouldn’t break the bank. The 74-year-old Dyken had moved in with her daughter to help care for Christopher but also because she couldn’t afford rising rents on her own.


April 5, 2024

Tax Day is right around the corner. That means some folks who haven’t yet filed yet are still weighing options to help them minimize the stress of navigating a complicated tax system. Many people will end up paying a company to help them file, like purchasing software to file online.

 


April 3, 2024

Pahrump is growing and so is the need for more resources for those that call the not-so-rural-anymore town their home.

Congressman Steven Horsford visited Pahrump on Friday, where he met up with several local leaders, among them the Nye County commissioners, USDA Rural Planning Network, educators, medical professionals and veterans. Pahrump has grown in population to what is estimated at more than 50,000 residents by the U.S Census, which was over a 30 percent increase in population since the last count.