News Releases
December 2, 2015
ELKO, NEV. – Congressman Mark Amodei (NV-2) today announced his rural representative, Meghan Brown, accepted a position as deputy administrator plant industry with the Nevada Department of Agriculture. He thanked Brown for her service in his Elko district office.
November 18, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Mark Amodei (NV-2) joined 109 of his House colleagues in signing a letter to President Obama urging him to suspend plans to admit thousands of Syrian refugees until the Administration can ensure those individuals do not pose a threat to Americans.
October 22, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Mark Amodei (NV-2), along with 48 cosponsors and a bipartisan group of 254 members, took steps to address the strategic and economic vulnerabilities presented by mineral production, including rare earth elements -- an industry dominated by China and other foreign nations.
October 22, 2015
Carson City, NV – Today, Nevada Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt joined a suit on behalf of the state of Nevada challenging the federal government's greater sage-grouse land-use plan. In ten western states including Nevada, the federal plan withdraws more than ten million acres of federal land from public use.
October 13, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Mark Amodei (NV-2) has joined a bi-partisan coalition of the majority of the members of the U.S. House to sign a discharge petition to bring the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank of the U.S., also known as Ex-Im, to the House floor.
October 8, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Mark Amodei (NV-2) released the following statement regarding Rep. Kevin McCarthy's (CA-23) announcement he will withdraw as a candidate for Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives:
September 25, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Mark Amodei (NV-2) released the following statement regarding the announcement John Boehner will step down as Speaker of the House: "I want to thank the Speaker for his years of service and wish him the best. He certainly earned his spot in Ôthe older I get, the better I was club.'
September 16, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed via a suspension vote legislation introduced by Congressman Mark Amodei (NV-2). H.R. 1214, the National Forest Small Tracts Act Amendments of 2015, would change existing law to authorize the U.S. Forest Service to sell or exchange parcels of land under 40 acres to resolve encroachments or trespasses and to enhance the Forest Service's ability to better perform its land management responsibilities.
August 20, 2015
Congressman Mark Amodei (NV-2) today released the following statement after the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) completed the conveyance of 10,055 acres of lands to the City of Yerington for industrial, recreational and infrastructure purposes.
July 24, 2015
RENO, Nev. – Congressman Mark Amodei (NV-2) today announced he will hold a veterans' town hall meeting in Reno on Monday, August 17, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., at the California Building in Reno's Idlewild Park.