Congress had fixed the western boundary of the Territory of Utah as the Sierra Nevada. The fact that the Sierra Nevada was continually kept in mind as the barrier between Utah and California, may have given an occasion to call the adjacent territory east of California, Nevada, though the ...
Yucca Mountain,mountain in the SW Nevada desert about 100 mi (161 km) northwest of Las Vegas. It is the proposed site of a Dept. of Energy (DOE) repository for up to 77,000 metric tons of nuclear waste (including commercial and defense spent fuel and high-level radioactive material) pr...
Horsford was the first African American to serve as Majority Leader (2009–2013) and the first African American to represent Nevada in Congress.After his election defeat in 2014, Horsford declined to run again in 2016, instead becoming an executive with an international Las Vegas-based business ...
From its peak in the 110th Congress, the Congressional Armenian Caucus boasted over 160 Members of Congress. Today it stands at 135 Members strong. At the same time, the Congressional Turkish Caucus grew its ranks from just over 60 in 2006, to 126 Members today, a 200 percent growth rate...
Post on your social media and contact your representatives. In your social media post, you can tag your members of Congress and urge them to call on federal regulators to repropose the rule. Sample social media messaging: Nevada businesses can't afford #BaselIII endgame. This prop...
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TheWestern District of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolutionis composed of three state societies: California, Hawaii, and Nevada. Each year at the National Congress, a Vice President General is elected to oversee the activities of the Western District. ...
March 2 - By an Act of Congress, signed by President James Buchanan, the region achieved territorial status. Separate from Utah, officially adapting the name NEVADA, Spanish for Snow Capped. July 11 Gov. Nye proclaimed establishment of the Territorial Government. ...
the Ninth Circuit again ruled in favor of the service advisors, determining that Congress did not intend to exempt service advisors from overtime, in part because FLSA exemptions should be narrowly construed and the legislative history did not specifically mention service advisors. The case went up...
Congress had fixed the western boundary of the Territory of Utah as the Sierra Nevada. The fact that the Sierra Nevada was continually kept in mind as the barrier between Utah and California, may have given an occasion to call the adjacent territory east of California, Nevada, though the ...