With the House on recess, Senate committees began holding hearings and Nevada Democrats reintroduced a bill to halt any administration action on Yucca Mountain. When both chambers return at the end of the month, members will begin pursuing bipartisan legislation – so I caught up with some members on their approach to it.

Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee this month plan to visit Yucca Mountain, the location where most members of the panel want to build a national nuclear waste repository.

Sen. Dean Heller got into a feisty exchange with Treasury Secretary nominee Steve Mnuchin today during a confirmation hearing for the former Goldman Sachs executive.

Nevada voters oppose renewed efforts to reopen the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage site and don’t favor the recently approved hikes in hotel room taxes to help finance a possible NFL stadium in Las Vegas.