Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), and the Special Committee on Aging, released the following statement applauding news of a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) grant totaling $601,576 awarded to the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) to fund research into Alzheimer’s Disease.

“As a caregiver to my parents and in-laws, I’ve witnessed the effect that Alzheimer's has on...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), sent a letter to HSGAC Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Ranking Member Gary Peters (D-MI) requesting immediate hearings on the health and safety conditions of migrant children held in detention centers at the southern border. 

“Last month, news reports detailed gross neglect and mistreatment of migrant children at an overcrowded CBP facility in Clint,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, alongside Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Gary Peters (D-MI), announced the introduction of S. 2154, the bipartisan JROTC Cyber Training Act, legislation that would direct the Secretary of Defense to carry out a program to enhance the preparation of students in the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) for careers in computer...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and John Cornyn (R-TX) announced the introduction of S. 2133, the bipartisan Secure American Research Act, legislation that would establish an interagency working group to protect federally-funded research and development activities from foreign interference, espionage, and exfiltration and would develop an agency-wide accountability metric to enhance cybersecurity protocols. 

“Taxpayer-funded research at our nation’s universities and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), questioned Homeland Security Advisory Council panelists during a HSGAC roundtable on how to ensure the safe and humane treatment of migrant children at the southern border.

“We know that health screenings are supposed to go on but right now they’re going on by CBP officers instead of health professionals,” said Senator Rosen.

“Definitively not the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation released a statement applauding news of a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant totaling $499,797 awarded to the University of Nevada Reno (UNR).

“I applaud NSF for awarding UNR this grant to fund research on recruitment, retention and career preparedness approaches for increasing diversity in...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), questioned U.S. Census Bureau officials during the HSGAC Hearing on the bureau’s efforts to ensure that immigrant communities are accurately counted in the 2020 U.S. Census.

“Last week, I joined some of my colleagues in a letter to the Census Bureau to provide additional language options for the Internet Self-Response and Census Questionnaire Assistance...

WASHINGTON, D.C. --Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, announced her co-sponsorship of the bipartisan Resident Physician Shortage Act of 2019 (S. 348), which would reduce the shortage of physicians in Nevada and the rest of the United States by increasing the number of Medicare-supported graduate medical education (GME) residency slots.

“The mass shortage of physicians in Nevada and across this country could have a...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement in response to the Administration’s move to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants. 

“Let’s be clear: there is nothing illegal about seeking asylum. Yet this Administration continues to ignore our laws and effectively end asylum for migrant families who are risking their lives fleeing persecution and violent...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) released the following statement applauding the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for awarding $512,562 to the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, to be used for environmental development and improved water quality.

“Access to clean water and a waste-free environment plays a pivotal role in leading a healthy life. We applaud the EPA for supporting environmental development programs within our...