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Assembly Speaker Yeager warns of possible special session later this year after federal cuts finalized
News - May 22, 2025

"I think still think it's likely we're going to end up in special session in September, October when the federal budget gets figured out. I mean, I'm crossing both fingers that maybe I'm wrong about that." Steve Yeager, Speaker of Nevada Assembly

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Amodei defends land-sale amendment, laments Nevada doesn't have Harry Reid's clout anymore
News - May 14, 2025

"Real brutal answer, it's because we don't have Harry Reid in there now. You need somebody with the stature of a senate majority leader or a minority leader who has the ability to impose their will on both sides of the Capitol. In the overall scheme thing -- and I'm saying this about me, too -- we don't have that person." Rep. Mark Amodei, on why Nevada won't receive the money from proposed land sales in Nevada.

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Nevada women's basketball team staying at Lawlor because of economics, Sandoval says
News - May 8, 2025

"The stark reality of it is they (women's basketball team) average 600, 700 fans per game, and it just isn't economic for them to play (at GSR), because we're gonna have to pay to play in that arena." Brian Sandoval, University of Nevada, Reno president

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UNR's Sandoval concerned about loss of academic freedom, research grants in signing on to college presidents' letter to Trump administration
News - May 7, 2025

"I joined with what is now 600 or 700 university presidents because it isn't just about the research. You know, there's also discussion with regard to what happens on a college campus and I believe that it's really important not to interfere with academic freedom." Brian Sandoval, University of Nevada, Reno president and former two-term governor of Nevada

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Assembly Speaker promotes bill that would cut credit card fees for consumers, small businesses
News - May 5, 2025

"They (payment bank) would have access to that back-end federal infrastructure to run credit card transaction. So instead of having five or seven different entities (charging fees) in the background, we think we could cut it to two or three entities. And because of that, I believe the the cost will be less." Steven Yeager, Nevada Assembly Speaker

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Underdog Joe Dalia, inspired by painful death of his father, leads charge for 'Death With Dignity' bill
News - May 1, 2025

"This is the only bill where if I don't get this passed, folks are going to die badly for the next two years." Assemblymember Joe Dalia, talking about his 'Death With Dignity' bill (physician-assisted suicide)

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Lt. Gov. Anthony says Democrats killed his bills as 'retribution' for his Task Force on Women's Sports
News - April 22, 2025

"The Democrats killed that bill specifically because of my stance on female athletes. That's the reason why they killed it. I know that for a fact." Lt. Gov. Stavros Anthony, speaking about his agri-tourism bill at the Nevada Legislature, SB 55

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Storey County seeks changes in state tax abatement deals to make things more equitable for county governments
News - April 14, 2025

"So really it (Senate Bill 69) brings the stakeholders to the table. All the current legislation allows us to do is we can negotiate an agreement with that gigafactory to offset those costs, to defer or to defray those costs." Austin Osborne, Storey County Manager, speaking about Senate Bill 69 at the Nevada Legislature

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Judiciary Committee Chair Scheible blasts NIAA for new transgender ban
News - April 10, 2025

"There is a very small group of people who have become fixated on the villainization of this one small group of transgender athletes. Because it's easy to pick on them and because it provides another place for them to focus their energy on blaming somebody else for whatever problems they have going on in their lives." State Sen.Melanie Scheible

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Chair of Education Committee at Legislature rips Lt. Gov. Anthony for pushing trans ban in women's sports
News - March 31, 2025

"Quite honestly, the lieutenant governor's office should be working on small business advocacy, and that's where they should be investing their time, not on creating political rallies for their campaign for their next big office." Selena Torres-Fossett, chair of the Assembly Education Committee, speaking about Lt. Gov. Anthony's time and effort spent on transgender-athlete issues in women's sports.

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