Catherine Cortez Masto
Liberal
Democrat
Senator
Nevada
Current Position: Senator from Nevada
Running For: N/A
Policy Positions
Economic Policy
- For middle-class tax cuts
- For federal investment in middle-class housing construction
- For strengthening American manufacturing and building a domestic supply chain for critical minerals
- For the bipartisan infrastructure law funding roads, bridges, drought relief, and wildfire mitigation
- Against the so-called "Age Tax" on older Americans' health plans
- For repealing the Cadillac Tax on middle-class health plans
- For solar tax credits to promote clean energy development and Nevada jobs
- For two of the largest military pay raises in a decade
- For military housing overhaul
- For building a veterans cemetery in Elko, Nevada
- For tribal transportation, clean water, housing, and broadband investments
Business & Labor
- For investigating Big Oil for potential price gouging and holding oil companies accountable for high gas prices
- For raising the federal minimum wage
- For holding Big Banks accountable for predatory mortgage practices
- For protecting Nevada's family farms and ranches from certain federal tax increases
- For the Nevada mining industry against new federal mining taxes
Health Care
- For capping insulin costs at $35 per month
- For empowering Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices directly with pharmaceutical companies
- For protecting the Affordable Care Act including pre-existing condition protections
- For expanding mental health and behavioral health crisis services
- For expanding access to Alzheimer's research and caregiver support
- For veterans' benefits including Agent Orange coverage and mental health treatment
- For law enforcement mental health counseling and combating police suicide
- For expanding rural healthcare including increasing physicians in rural hospitals
- For stabilizing healthcare premiums in rural counties and preventing insurer withdrawal from rural markets
- For rural veterans' access to VA telehealth mental health services
Education
- For student loan refinancing at lower rates
- For loan forgiveness for students defrauded by for-profit colleges
- For military service members' access to public service loan forgiveness
- For protecting student veterans' housing benefits during online learning
- For increased teacher pay, expanded school counselors, and expanded after-school programs
- For rural broadband expansion
- For improving student pedestrian safety and school air quality
- For training more teachers to teach English language learners
Environment
- For electric vehicle development provisions in the bipartisan infrastructure law
- Against nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain
- For protecting Nevada's Ruby Mountains from speculative oil drilling
- For protecting Nevada's public lands and $4 billion outdoor recreation economy
- For water recycling and drought relief investments
Civil Rights
- For cracking down on discriminatory lending practices based on race, sex, and religion
- For abortion rights; leads the Women's Health Protection Act to codify Roe v. Wade protections into federal law
- For protecting women's right to travel to another state to access abortion care
- Against a national abortion ban
- For expanding healthcare access for Native American communities including Indian Health Services funding
Immigration & Foreign Affairs
- Against family separation at the border
- For protecting DACA
Public Safety
- For wildfire prevention and firefighter pay raises and hiring
- For border security funding to stop drug trafficking
- For resources to fight sex trafficking and support survivors of sexual assault
- For Savanna's Act and the Not Innocent Act addressing missing, murdered, and trafficked Indigenous women