Press Releases
Cortez Masto Pushes Administration to Ensure Minority Owned Businesses Have Equal Access to SBA Relief
Las Vegas, Nev. - U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Small Business Administrator (SBA) Jovita Carranza, calling on the agencies to ensure unbanked and minority owned businesses are receiving the relief funding they need to weather this pandemic. Nevada is one of the most underbanked states in the nation, and countless Nevada small businesses owned by minorities and other underserved groups have struggled to access the SBA's … Continue Reading
April 29, 2020
Cortez Masto Leads Rosen, Colleagues in Letter Urging Administration to Implement Solutions that Allow Eligible Immigrants to Complete Naturalization Process
Las Vegas, Nev. - U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), along with Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), led a letter to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which has suspended live interviews and U.S. Citizenship Oath of Allegiance Ceremonies during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, urging the Administration to implement technological solutions that will allow eligible immigrants to complete the last steps on their path to citizenship. … Continue Reading
April 29, 2020
Cortez Masto Leads Letter Urging the CFPB to Reinstate Vital HMDA Data Collection
Las Vegas, Nev. - U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) led 18 of her Senate colleagues in sending a letter to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Kathy Kraninger urging her to reverse her decisions to suspend the quarterly reporting of information under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) during the COVID-19 pandemic and halt reporting of all HMDA data for lenders. Eliminating these reporting requirements could allow discrimination in mortgage lending to go unchecked … Continue Reading
April 28, 2020
Cortez Masto, Rosen Announce an Additional $74 Million for Nevada Health Providers in Coronavirus Pandemic
Las Vegas, Nev. - U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) announced that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has distributed $74,478,095 to 53 health care providers across Nevada to address costs associated with the coronavirus pandemic. These funds were allocated as part of the CARES Act-and are in addition to the first allocation of over $241 million that went to 2,581 medical providers in Nevada, for a total of nearly $316 million as of April 24, … Continue Reading
April 28, 2020
Cortez Masto, Rosen Ask That Immigrant Domestic Violence Survivors Get Protections During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Las Vegas, Nev. - U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) joined Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and 12 other colleagues in urging the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to ensure that immigrant survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, and other serious crimes can continue to access programs during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic through which they can obtain legal status independent of abusers and perpetrators. At a … Continue Reading
April 28, 2020
Cortez Masto, Colleagues Urge Administration to Take Action to Ensure Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Funds Reach Most Impacted Small Businesses
Las Vegas, Nev. - U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined U.S. Senator Amy Kobuchar (D-MN) and 20 colleagues in a letter sent to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Small Business Administrator Jovita Carranza, calling on the Administration to develop strong supervisory mechanisms to identify instances of unjust enrichment and ensure that Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds reach struggling small businesses who truly need the money. Recent reports indicate that the initial … Continue Reading
April 28, 2020
Cortez Masto, Rosen Applaud Over $7 Million in Funds to Help Nevada Law Enforcement Respond to Coronavirus
Las Vegas, Nev. - Today, U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) announced $7.3 million in Department of Justice (DOJ) funding to state, local, and tribal governments to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. This was appropriated by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020. "We are glad to see Nevada get funds from the CARES Act to support law enforcement and first responders in fighting the coronavirus pandemic," said the Senators. … Continue Reading
April 28, 2020
Cortez Masto, Rosen Call on Trump Administration to Cut Red Tape in Distributing CARES Act Funds to States
Letter calls on Treasury to follow Congressional intent and allow states to use funding to make up for lost tax revenue so they can continue providing essential services. Las Vegas, Nev. - U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) joined Senator Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), and 42 colleagues in responding to the Trump Administration's needless bureaucratic restrictions on how governors can distribute Coronavirus Relief Funds … Continue Reading
April 27, 2020
Cortez Masto, Scott Applaud FHFA Decision to Allow Federal Home Loan Banks to Accept PPP Loans as Collateral
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) applauded the decision by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to allow the nation's eleven Federal Home Loan Banks to accept Payment Protection Program (PPP) loans as collateral on advances to their qualifying member banks. This move will allow small community banks to pledge PPP loans as collateral in order to obtain additional financing from the FHLBanks to make new loans to small business owners in … Continue Reading
April 27, 2020
Cortez Masto, Scott Applaud FHFA Decision to Allow Federal Home Loan Banks to Accept PPP Loans as Collateral
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) applauded the decision by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to allow the nation's eleven Federal Home Loan Banks to accept Payment Protection Program (PPP) loans as collateral on advances to their qualifying member banks. This move will allow small community banks to pledge PPP loans as collateral in order to obtain additional financing from the FHLBanks to make new loans to small business owners in … Continue Reading
April 27, 2020
Cortez Masto, Rosen Applaud $7.2 Million in CARES Act Funding to Help Nevada Combat Coronavirus and Safely Reopen
Las Vegas, Nev. - Today, U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) announced $7.2 million in Centers for Disease Control (CDC) funding to help Nevada's efforts to safely reopen. This was appropriated by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020. "This funding will help get Nevada's economy back on its feet by ensuring the state has additional resources to perform the robust contact tracing, enhanced testing, and increased protections … Continue Reading
April 27, 2020
Cortez Masto, Rosen Push to Ensure Families Receive Promised COVID-19 Stimulus Payments for Their Children as Quickly as Possible
Las Vegas, Nev. - U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) joined Senators Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and 38 Senate colleagues in calling on the Treasury Department to ensure that families who are not required to file taxes and will automatically receive their COVID-19 stimulus payment do not need to wait until next year to receive the additional $500 payment per dependent child that they were … Continue Reading
April 24, 2020
Cortez Masto, Rosen Call for $3.6 Billion to Expand Access to Voting in CARES 2 Relief Package
Las Vegas, Nev. - U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) joined Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Senate colleagues in a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, urging them to include $3.6 billion to help states expand vote-by-mail and early voting in the next COVID-19 relief package. "Experts … Continue Reading
April 24, 2020
Cortez Masto, Colleagues Push Treasury To Ensure Americans Without Broadband Can Receive Economic Impact Payments
Las Vegas, Nev. - U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), along with 22 of their Senate colleagues, urged the Department of Treasury to increase its efforts to make Economic Impact Payments available to the most vulnerable populations-including those without access to the internet who cannot file a tax return electronically. In a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Cortez Masto and the Senators highlighted that at least 21 million Americans are without … Continue Reading
April 24, 2020
Cortez Masto Leads Colleagues in Urging Congress to Provide Housing Support for Domestic Violence Survivors During Coronavirus Pandemic
Las Vegas, Nev. - U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) led 22 of her colleagues, including fellow Nevada Senator Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), in sending a letter to Senate leaders, asking that future legislation to address the coronavirus pandemic also include resources to meet domestic and sexual violence survivors' urgent housing needs, which have been exacerbated by stay-at-home orders, social distancing, and the ongoing economic upheaval caused by COVID-19. "Communities need a surge of … Continue Reading
April 24, 2020
Cortez Masto, Rosen Join Bipartisan Push to Ensure Eligibility of Rural Electric Cooperatives in Paycheck Protection Program
Las Vegas, Nev. - U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) joined a bipartisan push - led by Senators Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and John Hoeven (R-N.D.) - urging the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to clarify that rural electric cooperatives are eligible for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was created under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act to support small businesses and help … Continue Reading
April 24, 2020
Cortez Masto Joins Bipartisan Push For Rural Housing Assistance Amid Economic Fallout from Pandemic
Las Vegas, Nev. - In an effort to prevent people in small towns and rural communities-particularly low-income families, seniors and people with disabilities-from losing their housing during the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined Senator Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and a bipartisan group of senators in pressing top Senate Appropriators for emergency funding to help rural renters. The push came in a letter to Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) … Continue Reading
April 23, 2020
Cortez Masto Joins UNR Veterans to Discuss Importance of the 2020 Census
Las Vegas, Nev. - U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) today joined student veterans at the University of Nevada, Reno in a teleconference about the importance of participating in the 2020 Census. In her remarks, the senator stressed the need for all Nevadans to fill out the census to secure the critical funding that supports programs for Nevada's veteran community and underscored the importance of ensuring that Nevada gets every federal dollar it's entitled to in order to help the … Continue Reading
April 23, 2020
Cortez Masto Joins Call on Administration to Establish “Rural COVID-19 Task Force” to Identify and Address Rural Issues During Pandemic
Las Vegas, Nev. - U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Representatives Antonio Delgado (D-N.Y.) and Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.) in a letter urging the Administration to establish a "Rural COVID-19 Task Force." The task force would help to identify rural challenges, develop strategies and policy recommendations, assemble a guide of available Federal programs and resources, consult with the Department and Congressional Committees, and provide … Continue Reading
April 23, 2020
Cortez Masto and Banking Committee Colleagues Urge Major Mortgage Servicers to Immediately Notify Eligible Homeowners of Protections Available Through CARES Act
Las Vegas, Nev. - U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) on a letter to major mortgage servicers - Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Mr. Cooper, Bank of America, PennyMac Loan Services, Quicken Loans, Freedom Mortgage, New Residential, Lakeview Loan Servicing, US Bank, and Truist - urging them to immediately notify eligible homeowners of the foreclosure and forbearance protections available to homeowners … Continue Reading
