WASHINGTON — What better way to share the holiday spirit between Nevada’s two senators than with a little humor over an issue that is now dividing the state?
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has vowed to stop new coal plants proposed for Nevada. Republican Sen. John Ensign has vowed to do all he can to trip […]

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WASHINGTON — Nevada Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley has said she would lay down her life to block nuclear waste shipments to the planned waste repository at Yucca Mountain.
Now she’s taking a more pragmatic step in trying to keep nuclear energy from enjoying a renaissance.
Berkley was circulating a letter on the Hill this week with musician-turned- […]

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WASHINGTON — Yucca Mountain news keeps coming this week.
The White House announced late Tuesday it was nominating Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s former nuclear energy advisor for another term on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Gregory B. Jaczko was first appointed to the commission for a partial term that expires next year. If confirmed by the Senate […]

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WASHINGTON — It seemed like a long shot a year ago when then-Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid introduced a bill with a few Democratic senators to require the Bush administration to put its cards on the table about Iran.
As my colleague J. Patrick Coolican and I wrote back in June of 2006 , Reid, […]

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Be sure to spend some time today with the New York Times’ extensive piece on how Nevada has benefited by the Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act.
The nut graff:
Supporters say the law, which authorized competitive auctions, has been a godsend for a region dealing with rampant population growth, limited room to grow, scarce water and […]

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WASHINGTON — Most of Nevada’s lawmakers in Washington have echoed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s pronouncement earlier this year that Yucca Mountain is dead.
But the full calendar of activity this week on the proposed nuclear waste repository is a reminder that Washington thinks otherwise.
Today federal officials will hold one in a series of public hearings […]

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WASHINGTON — Congress is expected back in session today for the final legislative push of the year, and already the punches were flying this morning between President Bush and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid even before the gavels banged open the chambers.
Bush scolded Congress for its “unfinished business” at a morning Rose Garden press conference. […]

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WASHINGTON — Nevada’s Republican Sen. John Ensign has submitted a question for Wednesday night’s CNN-YouTube Republican presidential debate. You know the drill. This is the debate without middlemen, where regular people get to turn a camcorder on themselves and ask the candidates anything on their minds. A handful will be aired on debate night.
Ensign, dressed […]

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WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s approval rating among Nevadans is either 32 percent or 56 percent, depending on the poll.
Now a third poll is offering another snapshot.
The Reno-Gazette Journal is reporting today that Reid’s approval ratings are at 39 percent, according to a survey done for the paper this month. The paper’s […]

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WASHINGTON — It’s never too late for a lawmaker to get a first-hand view of the Iraq war.
As the war continues in its fifth year, Nevada’s Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley is planning to make her first trip to Iraq during the December holidays.
Berkley is the only member of Nevada’s congressional delegation yet to visit the […]

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