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BREAKING: Republicans Block Cortez Masto, Kaine Push to Demand Transparency into Human Rights Violations by Former President of Honduras - Senator Catherine Cortez Masto
Position: Senators Cortez Masto and Kaine oppose President Trump's pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, a convicted drug trafficker, and advocate for congressional transparency requiring the Trump Administration to produce a detailed report on Hernández's human rights violations and drug trafficking connections.
Cortez Masto and Kaine’s resolution failed despite bipartisan support, as Republican Senators refused to demand details related to the actions of convicted drug trafficker and former President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández, who was pardoned by President Trump last year
FTP for TV stations of her remarks is available here.
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) forced a vote on legislation to require the Trump Administration to produce a report detailing Honduras’s human rights violations under former President Juan Orlando Hernández, who President Trump gave a “full and complete pardon” in December of 2025.
Hernández was convicted by a U.S. jury for conspiring to import hundreds of tons of cocaine and for related weapons offenses and was sentenced to 45 years in prison. The former Honduran president has also been accused of taking bribes from Joaquín Guzmán, the infamous Mexican cartel leader known as “El Chapo,” and raking in millions of dollars from drug trafficking organizations.
“President Trump has abused his pardon power at every turn, and his pardon of notorious drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernández is both insulting and dangerous,” said Senator Cortez Masto. “The American people deserve to know the truth about the connections between former Honduran President Hernández, cartels that have trafficked deadly drugs into the U.S., and Honduras’s human rights record. Instead, Congressional Republicans seem more interested in protecting President Trump than in public safety.”
“President Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, a convicted narcotrafficker who bragged about flooding our country with cocaine,” said Senator Kaine. “It should be a no brainer to require the Administration to detail the full extent of his crimes and human rights abuses. Americans deserve to understand who this criminal cartel leader is that Trump decided to release. Instead, my colleagues today blocked a resolution that would do just that. I’ll keep working to demand accountability from the Administration about this pardon.”
This resolution would have forced the Trump administration to outline the human rights abuses under former President Hernández, including information about:
The resolution would also have demanded a description of the steps the United States has taken to promote respect for human rights in Honduras and bring Honduran government officials to justice for their involvement in drug trafficking. And as Hernández continues to spread false information about his record, the resolution would have required an assessment from the Secretary of State of the former president’s status post-conviction and any ongoing ties he maintains to drug cartels.
The full resolution can be found HERE.
Senator Cortez Masto has been working to crack down on drug and human trafficking since she was first elected Attorney General, when she worked with Nevada’s Republican governor, law enforcement, and Mexican officials to combat the rise of methamphetamine manufacturing and cross-border drug trafficking. In the Senate, she has authored legislation to combat drug trafficking online that was signed into law, and passed critical legislation to eliminate illegal fentanyl supply chains. She has also introduced legislation to crack down on the deadly fentanyl additive xylazine. She has also pushed for transparency about the use of U.S. taxpayer dollars to hold people in horrific conditions in El Salvadoran prisons and has been a consistent supporter of the International Human Rights Defense Act.
Cortez Masto, Cotton Introduce Bill to Accelerate Energy Projects Stalled by Red Tape - Senator Catherine Cortez Masto
Position: Senators Cortez Masto and Cotton introduced the FREEDOM Act to streamline federal permitting processes for energy projects by reducing bureaucratic delays, establishing permitting timelines, expediting court reviews, and limiting court orders that overturn permitted projects. The bill includes provisions to accelerate critical mineral production, geothermal exploration, and geothermal permitting on federal lands.
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) introduced bipartisan legislation to cut bureaucratic red tape unnecessarily delaying energy projects. The Fighting for Reliable Energy and Ending Doubt for Open Markets (FREEDOM) Act would provide energy projects across America permitting certainty, without favoring any specific technology over another.
“For far too long, energy projects across the country have been slowed by bureaucracy,” said Senator Cortez Masto. “The bipartisan FREEDOM Act is a critical first step in slashing this unnecessary red tape so we can meet the energy needs of the future and unlock America’s full potential.”
“Endless lawsuits delay vital energy projects, resulting in higher energy prices for Arkansans. My bill will eliminate bureaucratic red tape to streamline energy projects,” said Senator Cotton.
“We're in an energy crisis because it takes longer to permit an energy project than it does to build it. The solution is simple: cut the red tape and build more affordable energy faster. The FREEDOM Act will speed up approvals, hold federal agencies accountable, and help get reliable energy projects online. I'm excited to see these smart, common-sense solutions advancing in the Senate, and I look forward getting this bill passed to lower energy costs for our families,” said Congressman Harder.
The FREEDOM Act works to speed up the completion of energy projects by accelerating the permitting process, establishing permitting timelines, expediting court reviews of permitting lawsuits in a reasonable way, and limiting court orders that overturn fully permitted projects. Additionally, the bill includes Senator Cortez Masto’s provisions to allow critical mineral production to continue in the West, expedite geothermal exploration and development, and streamline geothermal permitting on federal land.
Senator Cortez Masto has consistently worked to support Nevada’s battery supply chain and clean energy industry, which has created nearly 42,000 good-paying clean energy jobs across Nevada. Through her Innovation State Initiative, Senator Cortez Masto has been a proponent of renewable and sustainable energy, passing bipartisan legislation to promote Nevada’s mining and emerging battery industries. The Senator had previously led the Nevada delegation in a letter to Interior Secretary Burgum raising concerns that the Department’s new policy placed additional scrutiny on only certain renewable energy sources.
Marking 14 Years of DACA, Cortez Masto Calls Out the Trump Administration for Delaying DACA Renewals and Urges Passage of the Dream Act - Senator Catherine Cortez Masto
Position: Senator Cortez Masto celebrates 14 years of DACA, condemns the Trump administration's intentional delays of DACA renewals, and calls for passage of the Dream Act to provide a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who arrived as children.
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) celebrated 14 years of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. On the Senate floor, she praised the benefits of this program for the United States, condemned the Trump administration’s intentional delaying of DACA renewals, and once again called for passage of the Dream Act.
Below are her remarks as prepared for delivery:
M. President, I’m joining my colleagues on the Senate floor because today marks the 14th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA.
When it was created by President Obama back in 2012, the purpose of this program was to protect people who came to the United States as children. But President Obama made clear that legislation was also needed – Congress needed to pass a path to citizenship for Dreamers.
There was bipartisan support for it, but petty politics kept getting in the way.
In the meantime, DACA has become a lifeline for hardworking, inspiring young people who have only ever known this country as their home.
But make no mistake, DACA is not given out freely. Applicants undergo intense background checks. And every two years, they have to renew their status and go through another scrutinizing background check.
For the past 14 years, DACA has worked as intended. It has allowed thousands of young people to obtain work permits and critical protections from deportation as they get their education and build careers and lives in the U.S.
It has been an overwhelming benefit to our nation.
99% of the DACA recipients who started the program in 2012 completed high school and got their diplomas. Almost every single one! That’s the kind of dedication you find in Dreamers.
Additionally, more than 90% of DACA recipients over the age of 25 are participating in our workforce. They’re building families, they’re working hard, and they’re paying more than $2 billion in state and local taxes. They love this country, and they feel as American as every member of this chamber.
Yet over the past fourteen years, they’ve endured attack after attack and been made into pawns by far too many politicians. Even still, through it all, they’re thriving and building their American Dream.
But right now, our country is breaking its promise to them.
I’ve stood right here on the Senate floor multiple times now over the course of the last several months to talk about this. This administration is intentionally delaying DACA renewals so DACA recipients go unprotected.
DACA recipients have been applying months ahead of their two-year deadlines, but for many, that’s still not enough time before their status expires.
This is all part of the Trump administration’s plan to attack and undermine immigrants.
Now, I want to be clear about something: We all agree that we need strong border security and that criminals need to face justice. There’s no question about it.
But instead of focusing on the “worst of the worst” like President Trump promised to do, he and Stephen Miller are directing federal immigration enforcement to go after DACA recipients – mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers with absolutely no criminal record.
Why? Because they had the audacity to be brought here as children? Because they’ve only ever called this country home?
Why, instead of going after actual criminals, is this administration focused on young men and women who are woven into the fabric of their communities?
I think we know why. It’s because DACA recipients look a little different or sound a little different from what the Trump administration has decided “real Americans” look and sound like. It’s because DACA recipients’ shining successes prove that immigrants are actually a benefit to the United States, not a detriment as this administration would have us believe.
The actions of the Trump administration to delay DACA renewals are about as un-American as you can get.
I’ve been hearing and sharing stories of DACA recipients who have struggled with these delays. But I don’t think people really understand the toll this is taking on thousands of families across the country.
When someone’s DACA status expires, they lose their work permit. Some workers are placed on leave until their status gets renewed, but some permanently lose their jobs.
That means a source of income a family relies on is now gone.
If they have U.S. citizen children, critical support for them is now gone. If they had employer-sponsored health care, that’s now gone – and if they didn’t, then health care is even harder to afford.
It’s now more difficult for them to take care of disabled, elderly, or sick relatives. Not to mention, there’s now the constant threat of being sent away from their family to a country they’ve never known hanging over their heads.
That’s all piled on top of the enormously high cost of groceries, gas, electricity, and health care all Americans are experiencing under this administration.
Imagine being a DACA recipient who has lived your whole life in this country, except for a few years when you were a baby. For over a decade, your government has told you that if you play by the rules and contribute, you’ll be able to work and be protected from deportation.
You go to school, you get a job, you meet someone, you settle down and start a family like any American would. And then your government, the same one you support with your hard-earned tax dollars, turns on you.
I don’t know about you, but that is just unacceptable to me.
DACA recipients are not the only ones being punished – these delays are hurting our businesses and our communities, too. A police chief in California was here in Washington last month to talk about how delays in DACA renewals are hurting his police department. One of his officers was recently unable to work for a whole month while he waited for his renewal application to process. Local law enforcement is stretched thin as it is. Now, this administration is making it worse.
Small businesses, retailers, and construction companies are also losing the employees they depend on.
Approximately 37,000 health care workers are DACA recipients – the damage that could be done to our hospitals if their work permits aren’t renewed is unimaginable.
Hurting DACA recipients is hurting our country. And it’s being done to further the President’s and Stephen Miller’s goal of attacking immigrants.
It’s more important than ever that we recognize that fact in light of the upcoming celebrations for America’s 250th birthday.
Our 250th anniversary is a critical reminder that our great nation only exists because of immigrants.
To lose sight of that is to spit on everything our country stands for. The Declaration of Independence was written because a bunch of immigrants, and sons of immigrants, and grandsons of immigrants came together to escape tyranny and live their lives freely.
DACA recipients are asking for the same freedoms and opportunities the Founding Fathers envisioned for this country 250 years ago.
That’s why my Democratic colleagues and I will never stop fighting to pass the bipartisan Dream Act. This legislation to give these men and women the path to citizenship they deserve should have passed years ago. Until we get it done, we’re going to keep pushing for it.
And, we will never stop reminding this president that the United States of America is and has always been a nation of immigrants.
Cortez Masto, Colleagues Press Todd Blanche on Decision Weakening Legal Protections for DACA Recipients - Senator Catherine Cortez Masto
Position: The lawmakers oppose the Board of Immigration Appeals' decision weakening legal protections for DACA recipients and urge the Acting Attorney General to ensure BIA rulings align with existing law and Fifth Circuit precedent protecting DACA forbearance from removal.
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz), alongside U.S. Representatives Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas-29) and Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.-03), led over 50 of their colleagues in pressing Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on the Board of Immigration Appeals’ (BIA) recent decision to weaken legal protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. Today is the 14th Anniversary of DACA, and Senator Cortez Masto is committed to protecting the program from repeated attacks by the Trump Administration.
In a letter to Blanche, the lawmakers raise legal concerns with the decision, highlighting inconsistencies between BIA’s ruling and the forbearance protections provided by DACA and upheld by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
“We are troubled to see the Board, and by extension, the Department of Justice, attempt to circumvent legal protections for DACA recipients, which have been codified in regulation by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and affirmed in a recent decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. We urge you to take steps within your authority as Attorney General to ensure the Board’s rulings regarding DACA are interpreted in a manner consistent with current law,” the lawmakers began.
“DACA is well established as a ‘a form of enforcement discretion not to pursue […] removal.’ As the Board noted in its decision, a DACA recipient ‘cannot be removed from the United States while she has DACA protection.’ DHS established DACA in 2012 by memorandum, and codified it in regulation in 2022. […] By regulation, immigration judges may, in the exercise of discretion, terminate removal proceedings for individuals who have received grants of deferred action,” they continued.
“The Fifth Circuit also maintained the nationwide stay for current DACA recipients, acknowledging the ‘immense reliance interests’ of current DACA recipients and the potential for significant disruption to others reliant on the program. Most important, in its decision, the Fifth Circuit stated that it would ‘not disturb DACA’s policy of forbearance.’ DACA’s policy of forbearance, as explained in the DACA regulation, ‘is a form of enforcement discretion not to pursue the removal of certain aliens,” they wrote.
“By concluding in Matter of Santiago-Santiago that an immigration judge may not terminate removal proceedings based solely on the fact that the respondent has been granted DACA, the Board acts in a manner that is inconsistent with the Fifth Circuit’s decision and the Department of Justice regulation permitting termination based on deferred action. The decision fails altogether to consider the DHS regulation’s stringent requirements for maintaining and renewing DACA and the Fifth Circuit holding preserving DACA’s forbearance from removal. Thus, the Board’s decision paves the way for DACA recipients to be detained and placed in removal proceedings without regard for their societal contributions, clean records, or public support, and even though they cannot be removed while their DACA remains valid,” they concluded, before making a series of information requests.
The full text of the letter can be found here.
The first and only Latina senator, Senator Cortez Masto has consistently supported immigrant communities in Nevada, including Dreamers. Alongside Senator Durbin, she is leading the bipartisan Dream Act, which would create a pathway to citizenship for immigrants who were brought to the United States as children. She has consistently raised the alarm about the DACA recipients who have been caught up in the Trump Administration’s cruel mass deportation regime and has urged the Department of Homeland Security to end the delays in processing DACA renewals.
Cortez Masto, Daines Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Protect Sensitive Taxpayer Information - Senator Catherine Cortez Masto
Position: The senators introduce bipartisan legislation to strengthen criminal and civil penalties for unauthorized disclosure of taxpayer information by IRS employees and contractors, raising maximum fines and prison sentences and establishing new felony offenses for contractors who fail to enforce safeguards.
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Steve Daines (R-Mont.) introduced bipartisan legislation to protect the privacy of American taxpayers’ information. The bill would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase criminal and civil penalties for unauthorized disclosure of taxpayer information.
“When Americans pay their taxes, they are entrusting the government with extremely sensitive information – everything from Social Security numbers to banking details,” said Senator Cortez Masto. “As the IRS relies more heavily on government contractors, we need to do more to ensure they don’t mishandle taxpayer information. This bipartisan legislation will hold bad actors who put everyday Americans’ data in harm’s way accountable.”
“One of the IRS’s most important responsibilities is protecting the confidentiality of taxpayer information. The last thing hardworking Americans should have to worry about is their tax information being breached or leaked. I’m proud to work with Senator Cortez Masto on this bill to protect taxpayer privacy rights and crack down on criminals who try to take advantage of the system,” said Senator Daines.
This bipartisan legislation would establish new provisions to raise the existing criminal penalty for unauthorized disclosure of returns from a maximum fine of $5,000 an up to five years imprisonment to a maximum fine of $250,000 and up to seven years imprisonment. It would also establish a new felony offense for Internal Revenue Service (IRS) contractors who willfully fail to enforce the safeguards established in the tax code.
Senator Cortez Masto has consistently fought to protect Nevadans’ privacy rights. She has led bipartisan legislation to protect Americans’ personal information from the Chinese Communist Party and other foreign adversaries. Cortez Masto has also fought to prevent both Elon Musk’s DOGE and the Department of Homeland Security from accessing sensitive IRS information.
Cortez Masto Joins Bipartisan Bill to Cap the Cost of Insulin at $35 Per Month - Senator Catherine Cortez Masto
Position: Senator Cortez Masto supports legislation to cap insulin costs at $35 per month for Americans on private and employer insurance and to establish a pilot program providing insulin at the same cost to uninsured Americans.
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined bipartisan legislation led by Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), and John Kennedy (R-La.) to lower the cost of insulin. The Improving Needed Safeguards for Users of Lifesaving Insulin Now (INSULIN) Act would cap the cost of insulin at $35 per month for Americans on private and employer insurance and create a pilot program to provide insulin at the same cost to Americans without insurance.
“For Nevadans with diabetes, insulin isn’t optional – it’s a necessary medication that they need to take every day,” said Senator Cortez Masto. “With prices for everything from food to gas on the rise, Americans need Congress to act now to end Big Pharma’s price gouging. We already capped the cost of insulin for seniors, and I’m proud to stand with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to bring down the cost for all Americans.”
Specifically, the INSULIN Act would:
Throughout her career, Senator Cortez Masto has consistently fought to bring down the cost of prescription medications and lower Americans’ health care costs. She has worked to enable Medicare to negotiate the price of more drugs more quickly. Cortez Masto introduced legislation to reverse Republicans’ policies in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) that block Medicare from negotiating the price of blockbuster drugs and pressed Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his support for the OBBBA despite its elimination of provisions to lower prescription drug prices.
Cortez Masto Bills to Combat Drought, Bolster Hydroelectric Power Pass Committee - Senator Catherine Cortez Masto
Position: Senator Cortez Masto supports extending federal funding for large-scale water recycling projects and improving hydroelectric power licensing transparency to address drought and strengthen clean energy capacity in the West.
Washington, D.C. – Today, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) passed two of U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto’s (D-Nev.) bipartisan bills, the Large-Scale Water Recycling Reauthorization Act and the Hydropower Licensing Transparency Act. These bills, which would combat drought and bolster America’s hydroelectric power capacity, now head to the Senate floor for consideration.
“Drought and high energy costs are not partisan issues – they impact every family throughout the American West,” said Senator Cortez Masto. “The key legislation that I advanced today would conserve water, reducing strain on the Colorado River, and strengthen our clean energy economy, cutting costs and creating jobs. I urge my colleagues to pass both bills into law.”
In the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Senator Cortez Masto included a provision to create the Large-Scale Water Recycling Project Grant Program, which established a $450 million grant program for large-scale water recycling projects, including a joint project between the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and the Southern Nevada Water Authority that will produce enough recycled water to serve about 500,000 households in Southern California and Southern Nevada and will help keep more water in Lake Mead. Funding for the grant program will expire at the end of this fiscal year. The Large-Scale Water Recycling Reauthorization Act, which Senator Cortez Masto led alongside Senator John Curtis (R-Utah), would extend the program for another five years.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regulates 1,600 hydropower projects at over 2,500 dams. These hydroelectric facilities are required to relicense with the FERC every 30 to 50 years. Recently, delays at the FERC have led to the relicensing process taking an average of seven to ten years. The Hydropower Relicensing Transparency Act, which Senator Cortez Masto led alongside Senator Steve Daines (R-Mont.), directs the FERC to report annually to Congress on the status of the licensing process for each application for a hydropower dam license.
Senator Cortez Masto has used her seat on ENR to advance legislation that meets the needs of Nevadans. Her bipartisan legislation to use strategic grazing to reduce the risk of wildfires, provide resources to states to prevent and combat wildfires, and allow critical mineral production to continue in the West have all passed ENR. She has used her ENR seat to press Trump Administration officials on their dangerous policies and to urge her colleagues to pass her Southern Nevada Lands Bill.
Cortez Masto Leads Call for Strong Guardrails on Trump Administration Stonewalling of Wind and Solar Projects - Senator Catherine Cortez Masto
Position: Senator Cortez Masto and colleagues call for legislative guardrails to prevent the Trump Administration from blocking wind and solar energy projects through additional permitting scrutiny, citing a federal court injunction and the need to meet energy demand and lower electricity costs.
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) led Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), and Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) in a letter to the leadership of Interior-Environment and Energy-Water Appropriations subcommittees calling on them to put guardrails in place that would stop the Trump Administration’s stonewalling of wind and solar energy projects. Their letter follows a July 2025 Department of the Interior (DOI) memo which directs the Department to place additional scrutiny on only certain renewable energy sources.
“On April 21st, a U.S. District Court granted a coalition of industry groups’ request for preliminary injunction on actions by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and the Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to disregard and block permits for solar and wind projects,” wrote the Senators. “The judge determined that the plaintiff’s allegations are likely to succeed on the merits and that the agencies actions posed imminent and irreparable harm to the plaintiffs. In line with this court’s decision and in light of the urgent need to approve and build more clean energy projects, the Committees should include language prohibiting the agencies from carrying out the actions subject to the court’s injunction.”
The Senators emphasize the need to approve clean energy projects to meet increased energy demand and lower prices. They cite the increased cost of crude oil, now more than $110 per barrel due to Trump’s foreign war of choice in Iran. Additionally, the Senators note the increased demand from new technological innovations, like Artificial Intelligence, driving up the cost of electricity nationwide.
“In order to ensure American businesses have access to abundant energy resources and protect communities from shouldering higher costs from an energy-constrained grid, we must tap into developing energy resources without discrimination. We respectfully request that you include language directing DOI and USACE to facilitate the responsible development of American energy […],” concluded the Senators.
Senator Cortez Masto has consistently worked to support Nevada’s battery supply chain and clean energy industry, which has created nearly 42,000 good-paying clean energy jobs across Nevada. Through her Innovation State Initiative, Senator Cortez Masto has been a proponent of renewable and sustainable energy, passing bipartisan legislation to promote Nevada’s mining and emerging battery industries. The Senator had previously led the Nevada delegation in a letter to Interior Secretary Burgum raising concerns that the Department’s new policy placed additional scrutiny on only certain renewable energy sources.
Cortez Masto Leads Effort to Protect the Right of Women to Cross State Lines to Seek Abortion Care - Senator Catherine Cortez Masto
Position: Senator Cortez Masto and co-sponsors support the Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act, which would prohibit states from restricting travel for abortion services and allow individuals to sue those who block such travel.
June 24, 2026, Marks Four Years Since the Supreme Court Overturned Roe v. Wade, Fifty Years of Precedent
Washington, D.C. – Ahead of the four-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s disastrous Dobbs decision, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) re-introduced the Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act. This legislation would block anti-choice states and localities from limiting travel for abortion services and empower impacted individuals to bring civil action against those who restrict a woman’s right to cross state lines to receive legal reproductive care.
“As we approach the anniversary of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, it is critical that we remain vigilant against continued efforts to further roll back women’s reproductive freedoms,” said Senator Cortez Masto. “For women in states where abortion became illegal over the last four years, the right to travel for abortion care is a lifeline. We cannot stop pushing back against any attempts to limit this right and make women second-class citizens in America.”
“Republican states responded to the right-wing Supreme Court justices’ demolition of Roe v. Wade by enacting increasingly extreme abortion bans and restrictions, including attempts to ban women from travelling to safe states and to punish out-of-state doctors,” said Senator Whitehouse. “Our Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act protects the rights of women to cross state lines, a fundamental tenet of American life. The legislation would also protect medical providers from punishment for providing reproductive health care that is legal in their state.”
“In the four years since Dobbs was overturned, we’ve heard countless stories of women forced to travel across state lines to obtain abortion care or even receive treatment for a miscarriage. Yet some Republican lawmakers now want to punish women for exercising their constitutional right to travel freely within our country to get the care they need. It’s sickening and wrong.” said Senator Murray. “Our bill would protect Americans’ constitutional right to travel across state lines to get a lawful abortion—and protect the providers who care for them. As Republicans do everything they can to strip away our constitutional rights, I am going to keep fighting to protect every woman’s access to the basic health care they deserve.”
“When the Supreme Court overturned Roe, it stripped over 170 million Americans of their constitutional rights to privacy and bodily autonomy,” said Senator Gillibrand. “The Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act would reaffirm the constitutional right to travel freely across state lines and empower Americans to take action against those who seek to block women from traveling to access the reproductive health care they need. It is essential that we fight back against these attacks on our liberty.”
“Nearly two dozen states have abortion bans on the books that are forcing people to travel hundreds of miles for the care they need, and anti-abortion extremists want to punish people for crossing state lines to do so. The Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act comes at a critical moment. We thank Senator Cortez Masto for her leadership on this bill to protect patients and providers—no matter where they live,” said Mini Timmaraju, President and CEO, Reproductive Freedom for All.
“The Trump administration and its backers in Congress are determined to make it harder for everyone, everywhere to get an abortion, even in states where abortion is legal. Their deeply unpopular anti-abortion agenda has already decimated our health care landscape and abortion bans stretch across 20 states, forcing patients to travel. We need every lawmaker to use every tool in their toolbox to protect access to abortion. We are grateful to Sen. Cortez Masto, Whitehouse, Murray, and Gillibrand for introducing a bill that reaffirms a patient’s right to travel for time-sensitive, essential abortion care, and prohibits interference with those who are forced to cross state lines as well as those who assist patients in their travels. As attacks on life-saving health care intensify, it is crucial that patients can continue to travel for abortion care, and the people who help them are able to do so without the threat of civil or criminal penalties,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, President and CEO, Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Anti-choice politicians in states like Texas have made efforts to punish both women for leaving their state for reproductive care and the doctors and employers who help them. The Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act underscores the Constitutional protections for interstate travel and provides redress for women whose rights are violated. The legislation would also protect health care providers in pro-choice states like Nevada from prosecution and lawsuits for serving individuals traveling from other states.
Read the bill here. Additional co-sponsors of the Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act include Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), John Fetterman (D-Penn.), Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).
The Freedom to Travel for Health Care Act is endorsed by Reproductive Freedom for All, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, ACLU, Guttmacher Institute, Physicians for Reproductive Health, National Partnership for Women and Families, Center for Reproductive Rights, Power to Decide, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, National Council of Jewish Women, National Women’s Law Center Action Fund, National Abortion Federation, National Network of Abortion Funds, National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda, and the Silver State Hope Fund.
Senator Cortez Masto has been a fierce advocate for women’s reproductive rights. Last November, Cortez Masto sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kennedy and former FDA Commissioner Makary expressing alarm over the Trump administration’s plans to conduct “its own review of the evidence” on the safety and effectiveness of mifepristone. She’s championed legislation to repeal the Comstock Act, an arcane 1873 law that anti-choice extremists have repeatedly invoked as a backdoor means to effectively ban abortion nationwide without a single act of Congress. In the last Congress, the Senator also cosponsored legislation to codify the right to contraception and IVF.
Cortez Masto Votes Against Partisan Bill to Give a Blank Check to ICE and Border Patrol - Senator Catherine Cortez Masto
Position: Senator Cortez Masto opposes a Republican bill providing $70 billion to ICE and Border Patrol without agency reforms, arguing the funding lacks accountability and could be redirected to healthcare, law enforcement, and education.
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) released the following statement after her vote against Republicans’ bill to provide $70 billion to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol, without any meaningful reforms for the agencies.
“Republicans already gave ICE and Border Patrol $150 billion. They don’t need another $70 billion with no accountability to continue to terrorize families and go after American citizens and Dreamers.” said Senator Cortez Masto. “Instead, we could be using these dollars to help working families afford health care, pay our local law enforcement, or fund school lunches.”
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Top PAC donors · 2026 cycle
Political action committees that gave the most to this rep's principal campaign committee this cycle. PAC giving is direct organizational support — industry, ideological, or leadership.
2.AMS COMMUNICATIONS, INCTech3 contributionsCommunications and technology company PAC — specific policy positions not clearly inferable from the name.AI · low$144,460
3.ALL FOR OUR COUNTRY LEADERSHIP PACLeadership6 contributionsMember-of-Congress leadership PAC — directs contributions to allied candidates and party priorities.AI$126,138
5.JUSTICE 2016Ideological4 contributionsSingle-issue or ideological PAC — specific positions not inferable from the name alone.AI · low$107,737
7.DSCCParty2 contributionsDemocratic Senatorial Campaign Committee — official party committee that funds Democratic Senate candidates and coordinates national party support in federal races.AI$98,000
8.2016 SENATE IMPACTLeadership3 contributionsMember-of-Congress leadership PAC — directs contributions to allied candidates, likely focused on Senate races in the 2016 cycle.AI$90,037
9.GREEN SENATE IMPACT 2016Ideological2 contributionsEnvironmental advocacy PAC — supports Senate candidates aligned with climate action and clean-energy policies.AI$74,000
10.BLUE SENATE 2022Leadership2 contributionsDemocratic Senate leadership PAC — supports Democratic Senate candidates and coordinates party fundraising for federal races.AI$69,560
Source: OpenFEC (api.open.fec.gov) Schedule A receipts where contributor type is “committee.” Aggregated by contributing committee. Self-transfers from joint-fundraising / victory committees are excluded.
Top individual contributors · 2026 cycle
Itemized individual contributions over $200 to this rep's campaign committee, aggregated by donor employer. PAC giving is shown above; this section is people, not organizations.
1.APOLLO$26,500
2.APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT$13,500
3.D'LEON CONSULTING ENGINEERS$13,000
4.WINGED KEEL GROUP$12,000
5.LS POWER DEVELOPMENT$7,000
6.MEDLINE INDUSTRIES, LP$7,000
7.GENERAL ATOMICS$7,000
8.APOLLO MANAGEMENT$7,000
9.WANXIANG AMERICA CORPORATION$7,000
10.BLACKSTONE$7,000
Source: OpenFEC Schedule A receipts where contributor type is “individual,” aggregated by the donor's self-reported employer. This is a geographic / industry correlation, not a corporate endorsement.
