Jacky Rosen

Rosen during the 115th Congress in the U.S. House

A former computer programmer with no political experience at the time, Rosen was asked by then–Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid to run for the U.S. House seat vacated by Republican Joe Heck in the 2016 elections.[8] On January 26, she officially declared her candidacy for Nevada's 3rd congressional district.[9] Rosen won 60% of the vote in the Democratic Party primary election[10] and narrowly[8] defeated Republican nominee Danny Tarkanian in the general election.[11] Rosen was sworn into office on January 3, 2017.

• Committee on Armed Services
  • Subcommittee on Military Personnel
  • Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces
• Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
  • Subcommittee on Energy
  • Subcommittee on Research and Technology

• Congressional Arts Caucus[12]
• Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus[13]
• Congressional Caucus for Women's Issues[14]

Rosen was elected to the U.S. Senate on November 6, 2018, defeating one-term Republican Dean Heller and become the junior Senator from Nevada since January 2019. Her candidacy, announced on July 5, 2017, was endorsed by former President Barack Obama[15] and former Vice President Joe Biden.[8] During the campaign, Rosen emphasized her support for the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and criticized Heller's vote to repeal it in 2017.[16][17] At the time, Rosen voted against Republicans' attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.[17]

Ultimately, Rosen defeated Heller, the incumbent, by a 50.4%–45.4% margin. While Heller carried 15 of Nevada's 17 county-level jurisdictions, Rosen carried the two largest, Clark (home to Las Vegas) and Washoe (home to Reno). She won Clark County by over 92,000 votes, almost double her statewide margin of over 48,900 votes.[18]

Rosen was one of only two non-incumbent Democrats, alongside Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, to win election to the Senate in 2018. She is also the 37th freshman member of the United States House of Representatives to win a seat in the Senate and the first woman to do so.[19]

117th Congress (2021–present)

Rosen was on Capitol Hill for the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count when Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. She was in the Russell Senate Office Building when she was evacuated to a secure, undisclosed location. She tweeted during the attack, calling the event "reprehensible" and that "It’s time for us as a nation to come together and denounce hate and violence."[20]

• Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
  • Subcommittee on Aviation and Space
  • Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet
  • Subcommittee on Manufacturing, Trade and Consumer Protection
  • Subcommittee on Security
• Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
  • Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety
  • Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security
• Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
  • Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
  • Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management
• Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
• Special Committee on Aging

On January 29, 2019, she along with Senators Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Marco Rubio of Florida introduced bipartisan legislation to "require the President of the United States to create [a] special envoy position to combat anti-semitism".[25] On February 5, 2019, she and 45 of her other Senate colleagues introduced the Keep Families Together Act which would ensure that the federal government carries out immigration procedures in the best interest of detained children.[26] On March 13, 2019, she helped introduce the equality act in the Senate.[27] Following this she cosponsored the Fair Housing and Equity Act.[28]

During the 2018–2019 government shutdown, Rosen cosponsored the No Budget, No Pay Act.[29] On February 14, 2019, she voted to reopen the government without Trump's border wall.[30]

She, along with Senators Steve Daines (R-MT), Joe Manchin (D-WV), John Hoeven (R-ND), John Boozman (R-AR), and Jon Tester (D-MT), introduced the bipartisan TRICARE Reserve Improvement Act.[31]

Rosen helped reintroduce the Rebuild America's Schools Act of 2019, which would allocate an investment of $100 billion for school infrastructure projects, a $70 billion grant program, and a $30 billion tax credit bond program targeted to low-income schools with facilities that pose health and safety risks to students and staff. The bill would also expand access to high-speed broadband in public schools to provide reliable and high-speed internet access for digital learning.[32] She and her colleagues introduced the bipartisan Building Blocks of STEM Act.[33]

Rosen has voted for the Natural Resources Management Act, a comprehensive federal lands bill, and permanently reauthorize the Land and Water, Conservation Fund.[34] She signed on Senator Tom Carper's resolution that acknowledges that climate change is real.[35] She supports prohibition of the Secretary of Energy from taking action relating to the licensing, planning, development, or construction of a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain until the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) submits a study to Congress on the economic benefits of alternative uses of the site, and Congress holds a hearing on the benefits of alternative uses.[36]

In April 2019, Rosen was one of thirty-four senators to sign a letter to President Trump encouraging him "to listen to members of your own Administration and reverse a decision that will damage our national security and aggravate conditions inside Central America", asserting that Trump had "consistently expressed a flawed understanding of U.S. foreign assistance" since becoming president and that he was "personally undermining efforts to promote U.S. national security and economic prosperity" through preventing the use of Fiscal Year 2018 national security funding. The senators argued that foreign assistance to Central American countries created less migration to the U.S., citing the funding's helping to improve conditions in those countries.[37] She has cosponsored the Paycheck Fairness Act which would hold employers accountable for discriminatory practices, ending the practice of pay secrecy, easing workers’ ability to individually or jointly challenge pay discrimination, and strengthening the available remedies for wronged employees.[38]

Rosen supports an assault weapons ban.[22]

Rosen supports the Affordable Care Act and its provisions that prevent patients from being denied insurance or charged more due to age or having a pre-existing condition. She supports allowing citizens to buy into Medicaid as an alternative option to compete with private insurance companies.[39][40]

In January 2019, during the 2018-2019 government shutdown, Rosen was one of thirty-four senators to sign a letter to Commissioner of Food and Drugs Scott Gottlieb recognizing the efforts of the FDA to address the effect of the government shutdown on the public health and employees while remaining alarmed "that the continued shutdown will result in increasingly harmful effects on the agency's employees and the safety and security of the nation's food and medical products."[41] She introduced a resolution along with Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia to authorize Senate Legal Counsel to intervene in Texas vs. The United States to protect pre-existing protections.[42]

In February 2019, Rosen was one of eleven senators to sign a letter to insulin manufactures Eli Lilly and Company, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi over increased insulin prices and charging the price increases with having caused patients to lack "access to the life-saving medications they need."[43] She also helped introduce a resolution Urging Newly-Confirmed Attorney General Barr to Defend Health Care Law and Uphold the Constitutionality of the ACA.[44] She has cosponsored the Healthy MOM act which ensures that women who are pregnant can sign up for health care coverage, outside of standard open enrollment periods.[45] She does not support the Trump Administration's Short Term Association Health plans and has co-sponsored legislation to repeal them.[46] She has cosponsored the Improving HOPE (Health, Outcomes, Planning, and Education) for Alzheimer's Act.[47] As a result of the abortion laws enacted in Georgia and Alabama she announced her support for a resolution in Support of Women's Reproductive Rights.[48]

With colleagues from both sides of the aisle, she supports bipartisan legislation to prevent surprise medical billing.[49] She has a commitment to fight autism and has supported legislation to promote research, education, and awareness into autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental disabilities.[50] She believes that breast cancer patients and survivors who have experienced a mastectomy are able to access custom breast prosthetics under Medicare.[51] She supports extending a pilot program for Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) across the country for an additional two years.[52] She thinks our country needs to improve emergency mental health access.[53] She supports the Maternal CARE act.[54]

In August 2019, Rosen was one of nineteen senators to sign a letter to United States Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin and United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar requesting data from the Trump administration in order to aid in the comprehension of states and Congress on potential consequences in the event that the Texas v. United States Affordable Care Act (ACA) lawsuit prevailed in courts, citing that an overhaul of the present health care system would form "an enormous hole in the pocketbooks of the people we serve as well as wreck state budgets".[55]

In April 2019, Rosen was one of forty-one senators to sign a bipartisan letter to the housing subcommittee praising the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's Section 4 Capacity Building program as authorizing "HUD to partner with national nonprofit community development organizations to provide education, training, and financial support to local community development corporations (CDCs) across the country" and expressing disappointment that President Trump's budget "has slated this program for elimination after decades of successful economic and community development." The senators wrote of their hope that the subcommittee would support continued funding for Section 4 in Fiscal Year 2020.[56]

Rosen supports "comprehensive immigration reform", though she does not believe the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency should be abolished.[22] She has cosponsored legislation that Safeguard Dreamer's Private Information.[57] She also cosponsored the SECURE act which would protect TPS recipients,[58] and a bill making it legal for Dreamers to work in Congress.[59]

Rosen voted against providing COVID-19 pandemic financial support for undocumented immigrants on February 4, 2021.[60]

She was one of three Democrats who broke with their party and voted to make individual tax cuts permanent.[61] Rosen supports a $15 per hour minimum wage.[22] On February 13, 2019, she helped introduce the FAMILY act which would be guaranteed sick leave.[62] She supports the Child Care for Working Families Act which would promote affordable, high-quality early learning and childcare for working families.[63] On March 6, 2018, she joined Senator Ed Markey in supporting the disapproval resolution which would reinstate net neutrality rules, which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) repealed in December 2017.[64] She co-signed a letter in Opposition to Administration's Proposed Changes to Measuring Poverty Level.[65] On July 19, 2019, she along with three other senators introduced a bill which would increase investment in American Manufacturing.[66]

Rosen voted for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 which gave troops a 3.1 percent pay raise and also authorizes $65 million for military construction projects at Nellis Air Force Base.[67] She along with Senator John Cornyn of Texas introduced the bipartisan Secure American Research Act which would establish an interagency working group to protect federally-funded research and development activities from foreign interference, espionage, and exfiltration and would develop an agency-wide accountability metric to enhance cybersecurity protocols.[68] Rosen led a bipartisan group of senators in introducing the bipartisan JROTC Cyber Training Act which would direct the Secretary of Defense to carry out a program to enhance the preparation of students in the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) for careers in computer science and cybersecurity.[69] Recently, along with Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota, she introduced a bill which would require the State Department to investigate potential benefits of establishing a joint US-Israel cybersecurity center.[70]

Rosen helped introduce the Stamp Out Elder Abuse Act—a bipartisan, bicameral piece of legislation to fund efforts to combat elder abuse—along with bill author Susan Collins from Maine.[71]

She is pro-choice on the issue of abortion and has been endorsed by NARAL Pro-Choice America.[72]

Rosen co-sponsored Legislation to Provide Benefits to Veterans Exposed to Agent Orange.[73] She helped introduce legislation that would exempt children of Filipino World War II veterans, who were naturalized by President George H.W. Bush, from caps on immigrant visas.[74] She also introduced the bipartisan Veterans Jobs Opportunity Act which would create a small business startup tax credit to help veterans who establish small businesses in underserved communities.[75] She along with Senator Kevin Cramer of North Dakota introduced the Veterans Reimbursement for Emergency Ambulance Services Act which would require veterans’ expenses for emergency ambulance services to non-VA facilities to be reimbursed by the VA.[76]

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