Press Releases

Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) released the following statement after voting against Gen. John F. Kelly to be Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security:

Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) issued the following statement on reports that President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet will not include a Latino for the first time since the Reagan Administration in the 1980s:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), along with a group of fellow Senate Banking Committee Democrats, today praised Richard Cordray’s outstanding work as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), emphasizing the need for his leadership at the agency in President-elect Donald Trump’s Administration.

Grants awarded to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and Project HELP Nevada in Reno to support organizations’ work combatting violence and bringing communities together

Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) issued today the following statement on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) announcement that the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and Reno’s Project HELP Nevada have been awarded grants to strengthen their ongoing efforts to counter violent extremism: