#Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV)

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Urged by Cortez Masto, CVS and Walgreens begin dispensing abortion pill in Nevada - The Nevada Independent

Almost a year after major pharmacy chains began waffling at the prospect of filling mifepristone prescriptions, Walgreens and CVS began dispensing the abortion pill in Nevada during the last few weeks.

The decision comes after a concentrated push by Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), who called on the chains to follow through with Food & Drug Administration (FDA) guidance updates finalized in 2023 allowing mifepristone to be dispensed and sold at pharmacies.

Now the most common means of terminating a pregnancy, mifepristone is the first of a two-pill drug regimen that patients can take within the first 10 weeks of pregnancy. The pro-abortion rights Guttmacher Institute estimates that medication is now used for more than half (54 percent) of all abortions.

Mifepristone is available in Nevada via mail or at clinics, but abortion rights advocates say the pharmacy option will make access as simple as patients visiting their regular doctor’s office (which often are not certified to stock the abortion pill), obtaining a prescription and then picking it up at their local pharmacy.

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A few Senate Democrats are lobbying President Joe Biden to get as many migrants into the United States as possible and ensure they stay indefinitely before he leaves office and President-elect Donald Trump enters the White House.

This week, Sens. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), and Alex Padilla (D-CA) sent a letter to Biden asking him to reward large groups of illegal aliens and other migrants in the U.S. with immigration benefits before he exits office next month.

“In addition to supporting strong border security, we are eager to ensure that DACA recipients, TPS holders, and other immigrants who are critical members of our communities and economies are not forgotten during this busy time,” the Senators write.

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Leftist Group Fueling Democrat Senate Campaigns at Center of Attacks on Amy Coney Barrett’s Children

Leftist Group Fueling Democrat Senate Campaigns at Center of Attacks on Amy Coney Barrett’s Children

The leftist PAC NextGen America’s Managing Director, John Lee Brougher, is behind attacks on Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s adopted children, roping several Democrat U.S. Senators and Senate candidates into the smears on her family.

This weekend, as Breitbart News reported, before President Donald Trump even formally nominated Barrett to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left behind by the passing of…

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@queenbolyen​ I totally feel you like I’m so anxious lol.

If it helps though, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), who was one of the Democratic filibuster holdouts, has come out to support a filibuster carve-out for voting rights so Another One Bites The Dust.mp3. Now, we have less than 10 Democratic senators to convince to nix the filibuster like even Dianne Feinstein has said she’d support a filibuster carve-out for voting rights.

Off the top of my head, Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) both haven’t affirmed their explicit support for even a voting rights carve-out of the filibuster either, and they’re both up for reelection in 2022 in purple states. Also, Democrats need to stop being stupid about Kyrsten Sinema like Arizona is not a blue state (it flipped blue in 2020 because of the Ghost of John McCain, and I doubt it’ll stay blue), and she’s very obviously covering for Mark Kelly and taking all the blame for positions they both share so that he can focus on winning reelection in 2022.

Plus, Stacey Abrams, who’s declared her support for Joe Manchin’s proposal, recently met with Texas Democrats along with Bill and Hillary Clinton, and the Clintons, who’ve both already come out against the filibuster, are throwing their full influence into getting voting rights passed, even setting up 1-1 meetings with Manchin, Sinema, and other filibuster holdouts. Say what you will about Bill Clinton, but he can talk white working class like no other Democrat alive since he was born white trash in Hope, Arkansas, so if anybody can get through to Joe Manchin, it’ll be Bill Clinton.

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I don’t like rewarding shouty clicktivism, so I won’t reblog it, but there is a bill in the Senate to fix a lot of problems with disability payments.

The bill is S.2065 - A bill to amend title XVI of the Social Security Act to update eligibility for the supplemental security income program, and for other purposes. It would raise the standard payment, increase the asset limit from $2000 to $10,000, and make it possible to earn moderate amounts of outside income and be not quite as perverse - currently you have your disability payment reduced 1:1 for income with a very broad definition of ‘income’. It also would remove the clause that removes benefits if the disabled person gets married.

This is a pretty worthy cause and seems fairly unobjectionable even from a small-government perspective, so it’s probably worth calling/emailing/etc. your Congressional reps. It’s currently in committee - Finance Committee membership list here.

Current list of cosponsors:

Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] (primary sponsor) Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] Sen. Warren, Elizabeth [D-MA] Sen. Padilla, Alex [D-CA] Sen. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI] Sen. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD] Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] Sen. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL] Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI] Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT] Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA] Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN] Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI]

ATM the most valuable people to contact are (1) the ranking Republicans on the committee; that’s Mike Crapo [ID], Chuck Grassley [IA], and John Cornyn [TX]. And (2) the Dems on the committee who haven’t sponsored it - Debbie Stabenow [MI], Maria Cantwell [WA], Thomas R. Carper [DE], Benjamin L. Cardin [MD], Michael F. Bennet [CO], Mark R. Warner [VA], Maggie Hassan [NH], and Catherine Cortez Masto [NV].

TL;DR: If you live in Idaho, Iowa, Texas, Michigan, Washington, Delaware, Maryland, Colorado, Virginia, New Hampshire, or Nevada, this is probably worth your time to do sooner rather than later. If you live in South Dakota, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Lousiana, Oklahoma, Montana, Indiana, Nebraska, or Wyoming, there is a Republican senator with less seniority that might be worth your time to contact soonish.

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No matter who wins the 2020 presidential election, they won’t be able to get much done if their party doesn’t also win the Senate. Historically, the presidential election results in a given state have tracked closely with the Senate outcome there, and the two are only coming into closer alignment (in 2016, for example, the presidential and Senate outcome was the same in every state). But partisanship isn’t the only factor in Senate races (yet); a senator’s popularity can still make a difference. That’s why, today, we’re unveiling a metric of a senator’s political standing that takes both partisanship and popularity into account.

With the help of Morning Consult, which polls the approval ratings of U.S. senators every quarter, we’ve created a statistic that I’m playfully calling Popularity Above Replacement Senator (PARS). It’s based on the same premise as my Popularity Above Replacement Governor (PARG) statistic1 — that it’s a good idea to think about politicians’ popularity in the context of their states’ partisanship. PARS, like PARG, is calculated by measuring the distance between a politician’s net approval rating (approval rating minus disapproval rating) in her state and the state’s partisan lean (how much more Republican- or Democratic-leaning it is than the country as a whole).2 Take West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin as an example. According to the latest Morning Consult poll, which covered the first three months of 2019, Manchin had a +5 net approval rating. That may not look like anything special, but it’s actually quite impressive because Manchin is a Democrat in one of the reddest states in the nation (R+30). Accordingly, he leads all senators with a +35 PARS.

Introducing ‘Popularity Above Replacement Senator’ scores

Senators’ net approval ratings for the first three months of 2019 relative to the partisan leans* of their states

Senator State Name Party Net Approval State Partisan Lean PARS WV Joe Manchin D +5 R+30 +35 AL Doug Jones D +6 R+27 +33 MN Amy Klobuchar D +32 D+2 +30 MT Jon Tester D +12 R+18 +30 ME Angus King I +30 D+5 +25 OH Sherrod Brown D +17 R+7 +24 NH Jeanne Shaheen D +21 R+2 +23 AZ Kyrsten Sinema D +12 R+9 +21 VA Mark Warner D +19 EVEN +19 NH Maggie Hassan D +17 R+2 +19 ME Susan Collins R +13 D+5 +18 PA Bob Casey D +15 R+1 +16 MN Tina Smith D +18 D+2 +16 WI Tammy Baldwin D +14 R+1 +15 OR Ron Wyden D +24 D+9 +15 VA Tim Kaine D +13 EVEN +13 SC Tim Scott R +30 R+17 +13 MI Debbie Stabenow D +13 D+1 +12 GA David Perdue R +22 R+12 +10 DE Chris Coons D +23 D+14 +9 OR Jeff Merkley D +18 D+9 +9 MI Gary Peters D +10 D+1 +9 CO Michael Bennet D +10 D+1 +9 NV Jacky Rosen D +7 R+1 +8 NV Catherine Cortez Masto D +7 R+1 +8 LA John Kennedy R +25 R+17 +8 DE Tom Carper D +21 D+14 +7 WA Maria Cantwell D +19 D+12 +7 VT Patrick Leahy D +31 D+24 +7 VT Bernie Sanders I +31 D+24 +7 WA Patty Murray D +18 D+12 +6 GA Johnny Isakson R +18 R+12 +6 CT Chris Murphy D +17 D+11 +6 LA Bill Cassidy R +23 R+17 +6 MD Ben Cardin D +28 D+23 +5 FL Marco Rubio R +10 R+5 +5 WI Ron Johnson R +6 R+1 +5 SC Lindsey Graham R +21 R+17 +4 PA Pat Toomey R +5 R+1 +4 NC Richard Burr R +8 R+5 +3 OH Rob Portman R +10 R+7 +3 MS Roger Wicker R +18 R+15 +3 MD Chris Van Hollen D +25 D+23 +2 NM Tom Udall D +9 D+7 +2 FL Rick Scott R +7 R+5 +2 CO Cory Gardner R 0 D+1 +1 NM Martin Heinrich D +8 D+7 +1 TX John Cornyn R +17 R+17 0 ND John Hoeven R +33 R+33 0 NJ Cory Booker D +13 D+13 0 MA Ed Markey D +29 D+29 0 CT Richard Blumenthal D +10 D+11 -1 NE Ben Sasse R +23 R+24 -1 IL Tammy Duckworth D +11 D+13 -2 SD Mike Rounds R +28 R+31 -3 IA Joni Ernst R +3 R+6 -3 IA Chuck Grassley R +3 R+6 -3 NC Thom Tillis R +2 R+5 -3 AR John Boozman R +21 R+24 -3 RI Jack Reed D +22 D+26 -4 TX Ted Cruz R +13 R+17 -4 IN Todd Young R +14 R+18 -4 MT Steve Daines R +13 R+18 -5 IN Mike Braun R +13 R+18 -5 AR Tom Cotton R +19 R+24 -5 AL Richard Shelby R +21 R+27 -6 SD John Thune R +24 R+31 -7 HI Brian Schatz D +28 D+36 -8 AK Lisa Murkowski R +6 R+15 -9 AK Dan Sullivan R +6 R+15 -9 NY Kirsten Gillibrand D +13 D+22 -9 AZ Martha McSally R 0 R+9 -9 IL Dick Durbin D +3 D+13 -10 NY Chuck Schumer D +12 D+22 -10 UT Mitt Romney R +21 R+31 -10 CA Kamala Harris D +13 D+24 -11 MO Josh Hawley R +7 R+19 -12 NE Deb Fischer R +12 R+24 -12 WV Shelley Moore Capito R +18 R+30 -12 KS Jerry Moran R +10 R+23 -13 UT Mike Lee R +17 R+31 -14 MS Cindy Hyde-Smith R +1 R+15 -14 RI Sheldon Whitehouse D +11 D+26 -15 ID Mike Crapo R +20 R+35 -15 ID Jim Risch R +20 R+35 -15 TN Lamar Alexander R +13 R+28 -15 CA Dianne Feinstein D +8 D+24 -16 MO Roy Blunt R +3 R+19 -16 TN Marsha Blackburn R +10 R+28 -18 WY Mike Enzi R +29 R+47 -18 WY John Barrasso R +29 R+47 -18 OK James Lankford R +15 R+34 -19 MA Elizabeth Warren D +9 D+29 -20 KY Rand Paul R +2 R+23 -21 OK Jim Inhofe R +12 R+34 -22 HI Mazie Hirono D +14 D+36 -22 KS Pat Roberts R 0 R+23 -23 NJ Bob Menendez D -10 D+13 -23 ND Kevin Cramer R +8 R+33 -25 KY Mitch McConnell R -13 R+23 -36

A Democratic senator with a net approval of +2 in an R+7 state has a PARS of +9 (2+7 = 9). If the same state had a Republican senator with the same approval rating, the PARS would be -5 (2-7= -5).

Independent Sens. Angus King and Bernie Sanders are considered Democrats for these calculations.

Shaded rows denote senators whose seats are up in 2020, excluding those senators who are not seeking reelection.

* Partisan lean is the average difference between how a state votes and how the country votes overall, with 2016 presidential election results weighted at 50 percent, 2012 presidential election results weighted at 25 percent and results from elections for the state legislature weighted at 25 percent. The partisan leans in this article were calculated before the 2018 elections; we haven’t calculated FiveThirtyEight partisan leans that incorporate the midterm results yet.

Sources: Morning Consult, media reports

Like we did for PARG, we can use PARS as a tool to assess the 2020 Senate elections — specifically, to give us clues about which of the senators whose seats are up in 2020 might be poised to over- or underperform their party’s presidential ticket.

That conversation starts with Sen. Doug Jones, who comes in at No. 2 in PARS with a score of +33. Jones is a Democratic senator in R+27 Alabama, so he’s fighting an uphill battle. And if he is able to maintain a positive net approval rating (it’s +6 currently), that will be a sign of life for his candidacy.

Republican Sen. Susan Collins is another senator who hopes to overcome the partisan lean of her state (Maine is 5 points more Democratic-leaning than the nation) to win reelection. Her net approval rating in the Morning Consult poll has been on the decline over the past two years, but she still has a solid +13 net approval rating. The question is whether the results in 2020 will be closer to her net approval rating or Maine’s light-blue partisanship; splitting the difference yields a race that leans (or tilts) Republican, which is exactly where major election handicappers have it.

Similarly, if you were to look at state partisanship alone, you might assume that Democratic Sens. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Mark Warner of Virginia and Tina Smith of Minnesota are electorally vulnerable. But PARS reveals why the handicappers aren’t so sure. They all sit in closely divided states (from R+2 for New Hampshire to D+2 for Minnesota), yes, but they are all also quite popular. Shaheen has a +21 net approval rating, Warner has a +19 net approval rating and Smith has a +18 net approval rating.

Unlike this trio, there are some senators whose electoral fates probably do hinge on the presidential race. Those include Republican Sens. Cory Gardner of Colorado, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and John Cornyn of Texas. Each has a PARS between +1 and -3, indicating that their net approval rating is in line with their states’ partisan lean. If the Democratic presidential nominee carries their states (admittedly, this will be easier for Colorado than for Texas), the party may get a Senate seat as a bonus.

Finally, the senator who ranks last in PARS is also up for reelection in 2020, and it’s a big name: Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. McConnell manages just a -13 net approval rating despite inhabiting an R+23 state. It’s not crazy to think he could be vulnerable in 2020. Democrats are reportedly trying to recruit former Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath, who raised $8.6 million for an unsuccessful 2018 congressional bid, to run against him. But it’s worth remembering that Lucy has held this football in front of Democrats before. In 2014, McConnell also had popularity problems, and Democrats thought they had a top candidate to challenge him in Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes. McConnell beat Grimes 56 percent to 41 percent.

Check out all the polls we’ve been collecting ahead of the 2020 elections.

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Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto wins reelection over Republican Adam Laxalt, NBC News projects

Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto wins reelection over Republican Adam Laxalt, NBC News projects

U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) speaks at a campaign rally for Nevada Democrats at Cheyenne High School on November 01, 2022 in North Las Vegas, Nevada. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., won her reelection bid against former state Attorney General Adam Laxalt, defending a swing-state seat for the Democrats, NBC News projected. The victory is a boost to…

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Cortez Masto Fends Off MAGA Foot Soldier in Nevada Triumph

Cortez Masto Fends Off MAGA Foot Soldier in Nevada Triumph

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) has won another term in office, defeating Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt in a nail-biter contest that allows Democrats to retain control in the Senate. The AP called the race for Cortez Masto late Saturday. Cortez Masto was considered the most vulnerable Democratic incumbent in the Senate while…

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Catherine Cortez Masto Projected To Win Nevada Senate Seat; Democrats Retain Control Of Upper Chamber

Catherine Cortez Masto Projected To Win Nevada Senate Seat; Democrats Retain Control Of Upper Chamber

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) was projected to win reelection over Adam Laxalt in Nevada’s U.S. Senate race, assuring Democratic control of the Senate. The latest vote tallies were enough for networks to call the race for Cortez Masto, who trailed until final mail-in ballots were counted in more populous counties like Clark and Washoe. Coupled with the reelection of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ)…

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Watch Live: Democrat National Convention, Day 1

Watch Live: Democrat National Convention, Day 1

Prominent Democrats such as former First Lady Michelle Obama, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and others will speak virtually for the first day of the Democrat National Convention Monday evening.

At 9:00 P.M. Eastern, the Democrat National Convention will begin their convention program consisting of prominent speakers, starting with failed Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN).…

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In the waning hours of 2018, President Trump signed into law a bipartisan bill to boost federal efforts to address the Alzheimer’s epidemic that impacts some 5.7 million Americans and their families.  The BOLD Infrastructure for Alzheimer’s Act provides $100 million in new funding and “restates priorities” in the fight against a disease that’s aptly been called “The Long Goodbye.”

The BOLD Act was cosponsored by Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), and Catherine Cortez-Masto (D-NV):

“The… Act will improve early detection and diagnosis, provide assistance for caregivers and educate the public on Alzheimer’s disease and brain health. This bipartisan legislation is the first step in addressing [this] ongoing public health crisis…” – Sen. Catherine Cortez-Masto, BOLD Act co-sponsor

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if you want to see if your state's us senators cosponsored that dumb bill:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3538/cosponsors

Sen. Blumenthal, Richard [D-CT]

Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]

Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]

Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]

Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]

Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI]

Sen. Hawley, Josh [R-MO]

Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI]

Sen. Kennedy, John [R-LA]

Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]

Sen. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN]

Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]

Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]

Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH]

Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]

Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA]

Sen. Hyde-Smith, Cindy [R-MS]

Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]

Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]

Lindsay Graham is the original sponsor of this bill, above are cosponsors

how sweet, democrats and republicans uniting on silencing lgbt ppl and lowering encyrption standards 🥰🥰🥰 so good to see them working across the aisle

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S. 3475: A bill for the relief of Cesar Carlos Silva Rodriguez.

Introduced: Sponsor: Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto [D-NV]

This bill was referred to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary which will consider it before sending it to the Senate floor for consideration.

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