Representative Dean Heller News

Filipino World War II veterans have a reason to hope this year. U.S. Representative Colleen Hanabusa Senator Dean Heller crossed party lines to introduce a bill that would establish an appeals process for Filipino veterans, who were previously denied their lump sum benefits.

The tentacles of the Internal Revenue Service controversy have reached the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act .

The Senate Judiciary committee voted down party lines to endorse the nomination of Jennifer Dorsey, President Barack Obama's pick to fill one of the two remaining seats on the federal bench in Nevada.

As the GOP-controlled House of Representatives prepares again to vote this week on a repeal of the 2010 health law, some key Republican senators have seized on recent news developments to show their ire.

A mere four days after news broke that the Internal Revenue Service had improperly targeted conservative political groups for scrutiny, GOP Sen.

Half of the billion dollars allocated to cover implementation of the Affordable Care Act went to the IRS.

Republican Sen. Dean Heller is preparing legislation to prevent the Internal Revenue Service from hiring new agents to implement ObamaCare in light of the agency's targeting of conservative groups.

Sen. Orrin Hatch , the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has requested a bipartisan investigation into the Internal Revenue Service.

Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman is helping launch a new weekly radio talk show on SiriusXM aimed at promoting bipartisan politics.

The Capitol seldom resolves money matters without the looming threat of a fiscal guillotine - at least not in the past few years.

Turns out there's only one elected representative in the entire Nevada Legislature who got the Internet tax issue correct.

U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has reintroduced bipartisan legislation to establish a "Commission to Accelerate the End of Breast Cancer," the purpose of which will be to help end breast cancer by 2020.

The religious right and tea party groups remain convinced that the Republican Party has no need to rethink its policies.

Washoe Sheriff Mike Haley supports gun background ...: Washoe County Sheriff Mike Haley discusses his support of Mayors Against Illegal Guns and the National Day to Demand Action.

There are more indicators that last month's Senate vote on expanding background checks was something of a dress rehearsal.

With both of Nevada's Senators speaking in support, the Lyon County Economic Development and Conservation Act was heard for the first time last week in the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources' Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests and Mining.

Sen. Pat Toomey on Monday joined Senators Bob Casey and Dean Heller in urging President Obama to become personally involved and take direct action to reduce the backlog of veterans' disability claims.

The majority of the U.S. Senate sent a letter to President Barack Obama on Friday, urging his "direct and public involvement" in fixing the disability claims backlog plaguing the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Anyone who doubted that senators could suffer political fallout for their opposition to expanding background checks on gun buyers may want to talk to Sen.

Retired Marine Capt. Chuck Tremain greets his granddaughter, who drove from New York to Washington, D.C, to surprise him.