Catherine Cortez Masto – NV

Catherine Cortez Masto

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Current Position: US Senator since 2017
Affiliation: Democrat
Former Position: Nevada attorney general from 2006 – 2014

Masto worked four years as a civil attorney in Las Vegas and two years as a criminal prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C.

Masot became the first woman elected to represent Nevada in the Senate and the first Latina elected to serve in the upper chamber.  In November 2003, Cortez Masto was named executive vice chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education.

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Wildfires are devastating the West, and today I joined @ClimatePower and @ChiefDave_RFD
to call for action on climate. I’m leading legislation in Congress to combat wildfires back home, but it’s going to take all of us to address the climate crisis and protect our planet.

Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s full speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention

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Catherine Cortez Masto 1Born and raised in Las Vegas, Catherine Cortez Masto has spent her career fighting for Nevada’s working families. She served two terms as Attorney General of Nevada and in November 2016, she made history by becoming the first woman from Nevada and the first Latina ever elected to the United States Senate.

During her time as Nevada’s top prosecutor, Cortez Masto became well known as an advocate for seniors, women, and children. She worked closely with local law enforcement to keep Nevada’s communities safe.

As Attorney General, Cortez Masto led the push to break up sex trafficking rings throughout the state. She partnered with community advocates to give first responders the tools they need to identify and intervene in trafficking incidents. She also helped pass a law to make sex trafficking a crime at the state level, an achievement that allowed state and local officials to share resources and information with federal prosecutors.

Cortez Masto sought to protect Nevada’s seniors and implement guardianship reform in the state. She created a senior protection unit to safeguard older Nevadans from identity theft, exploitation, and abuse.

To help middle-class families recover from the housing crisis, Cortez Masto created the Mortgage Fraud Strike Force to investigate and prosecute lending scams. She led the fight to hold the Big Banks accountable for their role in the housing collapse and secured a $1.9 billion settlement for Nevada homeowners.

As a member of the United States Senate, Cortez Masto has taken her fight for working Nevadans to Washington, D.C.

Her position on four Senate Committees allows her to continue to advocate for the issues that matter most to Nevadans. She sits on the Committee on Finance; the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources; and the Committee on Indian Affairs. Cortez Masto currently serves as the chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee.

In Congress, Senator Cortez Masto remains a strong advocate for women and children and is working to pass legislation to strengthen women’s health care. She is a cosponsor of the Healthy Maternal and Obstetric Medicine (Healthy MOM) Act, which would ensure that mothers and their babies have access to the care they need, both before and after birth. Senator Cortez Masto continues to support our servicewomen by addressing the unique challenges they face as they transition from active duty. To ensure that they are empowered to access the full range of services they need to thrive, she has introduced the Servicewomen’s Health Transition Training Act of 2019, which would increase the knowledge of available VA health care resources like mental health assistance, maternity care, cancer screenings and casework management.

Senator Cortez Masto is working to repair our broken immigration system and protect hardworking families. She is a cosponsor of the DREAM Act and a fervent supporter of comprehensive immigration reform.

The Senator has also seized on Nevada’s innovation economy and leadership in renewable energy production. Cortez Masto has unveiled a key legislative initiative to strengthen America’s 21st century economy, called the “Innovation State Initiative.” Her legislative package is aimed at cementing Nevada’s place as a leader in innovation and strengthening America’s economic competitiveness in the fields of science, technology, and renewable energy. It consists of several pieces of legislation designed to promote technology jobs and innovation in the state, as well as nationally. This legislation also ensures there are guardrails in place for the responsible use of technology and the appropriate workforce training. Additionally, the bills prioritize investment in access to broadband internet in rural communities and disadvantaged urban areas, as well as enhanced drone safety and testing, and encourages investment in research and infrastructure that creates the smart communities of the future, improves infrastructure, and strengthens Nevadans’ quality of life and America’s economy.

Senator Cortez Masto is committed to finding solutions to the affordable housing crisis in Nevada, and across the country so that every hardworking family is able to pursue the American dream. Cortez Masto introduced the Home Loan Quality Transparency Act to reinstate key Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act reporting requirements, which were repealed last year, that help regulators and advocates hold banks accountable for discriminatory or unfair lending practices.

Cortez Masto also believes that all Americans have the right to affordable, quality health care. She has been a strong advocate in the Senate for strengthening our health care system and for protecting Medicare and Medicaid. In response to provider shortages in rural communities that could affect the health care coverage of nearly 8,000 Nevadans, Cortez Masto cosponsored the Marketplace Certainty Act to stabilize the health care markets, lower premiums for consumers and prevent insurers from leaving rural counties. She also introduced bipartisan drug pricing transparency legislation to allow the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) and the Medicaid and CHIP Payment Advisory Commission (MACPAC) to access critical information on pricing and contracts under Medicaid and Medicare to reduce costs for those on the program and protect these vital programs. Senator Cortez Masto is also a proud cosponsor of the following legislation to improve health care for Nevadans: the Family Coverage Act, legislation that would fix a glitch in the health care system and ensure all spouses and children are able to get covered; Empowering Medicare Seniors to Negotiate Drug Prices, a bill to authorize HHS to negotiate drug prices to protect seniors from exploitation; and the Stopping the Pharmaceutical Industry from Keeping Drugs Expensive (SPIKE) Act, a bill that would require drug manufacturers to publicly justify large price increases in prescription drugs.

Protecting survivors and combating human and child trafficking continues to be one of Cortez Masto’s top priorities. Cortez Masto introduced two bipartisan bills, titled the Not Invisible Act of 2019 and Savanna’s Act, which aim to address the crisis of missing, murdered, and trafficked Native Americans and Alaska Natives by increasing coordination among all levels of law enforcement, improving data collection and information sharing, and empowering tribal governments with the resources they need and bridging the gaps between tribal communities, law enforcement and the federal government. Cortez Masto has also introduced the Interdiction for the Protection of Child Victims of Exploitation and Human Trafficking Act to ensure law enforcement officers have the necessary tools and training to recognize and rescue at-risk and exploited children.

An avid hiker and nature lover, Cortez Masto is committed to protecting our environment and public lands for future generations to enjoy. She is the cosponsor of the Clean Energy for America Act, a bill that would measurably reduce carbon pollution over the next decade through a series of incentives for clean energy and the promotion of new technologies in the private sector. In an effort to spur Nevada’s renewable energy development and production, Cortez Masto cosponsored legislation called the Electric CARS Act to encourage the use and development of electric vehicles, the GEO Act to promote the growth of geothermal energy, especially in the State of Nevada, and the Renewable Energy Extension Act to extend clean energy tax incentives and ensure continued deployment, growth, and innovation of green technologies. Cortez Masto has also defended the Antiquities Act to protect Nevada’s national monuments and worked alongside the Nevada congressional delegation to introduce the Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act, which would ensure Nevadans have a voice in any plan to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain.

Prior to her service as Attorney General, Cortez Masto served as Chief of Staff to Nevada Governor Bob Miller. She also worked as an Assistant County Manager in Clark County and as a federal criminal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington D.C.

Cortez Masto earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in Finance from the University of Nevada, Reno in 1986, and a J.D. from Gonzaga University School of Law in 1990. She resides in Las Vegas with her husband Paul, a retired Secret Service agent.

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Full Name: Catherine Cortez Masto

Gender: Female

Family: Husband: Paul

Birth Date: 03/29/1964

Birth Place: Las Vegas, NV

Home City: Las Vegas, NV

Religion: Catholic

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Education

JD, Gonzaga University School of Law, 1990

BS, Business Administration: Finance, University of Nevada, Reno, 1986

Political Experience

Vice Chair, Democratic Outreach Committee, 2023-present

Senator, United States Senate, Nevada, 2016-present

Candidate, United States Senate, Nevada, 2022

Chair, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, United States Senate, 2017-2021

Attorney General, State of Nevada, 2007-2014

Professional Experience

Assistant County Manager, Clark County

Chief, Law Enforcement Officer

Assistant County Manager, Clark County, 2002-2007

Executive Vice Chancellor, Nevada System of Higher Education, 2003

Chief of Staff, Governor Bob Miller, 1998-2002

Assistant, United States Attorney, 2000-2002

Former Federal Criminal Prosecutor, United States Attorney’s Office, Washington District of Columbia, 1999-2001

Southern District Director, Governor Bob Miller, 1995-1998

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333 Las Vegas Boulevard South
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Las Vegas, NV 89101
P: (702) 388-5020   F: (702) 388-5030

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313 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
P: (202) 224-3542

RENO
400 South Virginia Street
Suite 902
Reno, NV 89501
P: (775) 686-5750   F: (775) 686-5757
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[a] (born March 29, 1964) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Nevada, a seat she has held since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Cortez Masto served as the 32nd attorney general of Nevada from 2007 to 2015.

Cortez Masto graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno and Gonzaga University School of Law. She worked four years as a civil attorney in Las Vegas and two years as a criminal prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C. before being elected Nevada attorney general in 2006, replacing George Chanos. Reelected in 2010, she was not eligible to run for a third term in 2014 because of lifetime term limits established by the Constitution of Nevada.

Cortez Masto narrowly defeated Republican Joe Heck in the 2016 United States Senate election in Nevada to replace outgoing Democratic senator Harry Reid, becoming the first woman elected to represent Nevada in the Senate and the first Latina elected to serve in the upper chamber.[1] She took office on January 3, 2017, and became Nevada’s senior senator in January 2019, when Dean Heller left the Senate following his defeat. She was narrowly reelected in 2022, defeating Republican nominee Adam Laxalt.[2]

Early life and education

Cortez Masto in the University of Nevada, Reno yearbook, 1985

Cortez Masto was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, the daughter of Joanna (née Musso) and Manny Cortez.[3] Her father, an attorney, was the longtime head of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and served as a member of the Clark County Commission.[4] Now deceased, Manny Cortez had a long-standing friendship with Harry Reid.[5] Her father was of Mexican descent, and her mother is of Italian ancestry.[6][7] Her paternal grandfather, Eduardo Cortez, immigrated to Nevada from Chihuahua, Mexico.[8][9][10]

Cortez Masto attended Ed W. Clark High School,[11] and graduated in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from the University of Nevada, Reno, where she was a first-generation college student. In 1990, she earned a Juris Doctor from Gonzaga University School of Law.[12][13]

Early career

Cortez Masto was admitted to the State Bar of Nevada in 1990, the U.S. District Court, the District of Nevada in 1991, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 1994. Her career includes four years as a civil attorney in Las Vegas and two as a criminal prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C. She also served as former Nevada Governor Bob Miller‘s chief of staff.[5]

In November 2003, Cortez Masto was named executive vice chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education. There was some controversy, because she was hired directly by the chancellor, not the university system’s board of regents; the chancellor said the regents had recommended that he hire an assistant, and in December the board voted unanimously to approve her annual salary of $215,000.[14][15]

Nevada Attorney General

Cortez Masto with then-California Attorney General (and later Senate colleague and vice president) Kamala Harris in December 2011

Cortez Masto was the Democratic nominee for state attorney general in 2006 and defeated Republican nominee Don Chairez 59% to 36%, with 5% for “None of these”.[16] She was reelected in 2010, defeating Republican Travis Barrick 52% to 36%, with 8% for Independent American candidate Joel F. Hansen and 4% for “None of these”.[17]

In 2009, Cortez Masto’s office launched an investigation into Brian Krolicki, then Nevada’s Republican lieutenant governor. Krolicki faced felony charges related to allegations that he mishandled the Nevada College Savings Trust Fund when he was state treasurer. During the investigation, the Las Vegas Review-Journal discovered that Cortez Masto’s husband, Paul, planned to host a fundraising party for Robert S. Randazzo, a Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, four days before the attorney general’s office was scheduled to prosecute Krolicki. Cortez Masto said she was unaware of the fundraising party.[18] The charges against Krolicki were ultimately dismissed in Clark County District Court.[19] The dismissal of charges against Krolicki was regarded as a political setback for Cortez Masto, who, according to the Las Vegas Sun, “opened herself to charges of politicizing her office and prosecutorial misconduct”.[20]

In 2010, Cortez Masto’s office began investigating Bank of America, accusing the company of raising interest rates on troubled borrowers. Her office sought to end Nevada’s participation in a loan modification settlement in order to sue the bank over deceptive marketing and lending practices. Bank of America denied any wrongdoing.[21] The lawsuit was settled in 2012 for $750 million for lien reductions and short sales.[22]

Cortez Masto defended the state of Nevada in the lawsuit Sevcik v. Sandoval. The suit challenged Nevada’s denial of same-sex marriage, as prohibited by the state’s constitution and statutory law. After initially defending the same-sex marriage ban,[23] Cortez Masto and the state abandoned their defense in light of a ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.[24]

U.S. Senate

Cortez Masto being sworn in as a U.S. senator by Vice President Joe Biden
Cortez Masto during the 115th Congress
Maggie Hassan speaking with Cortez Masto at a Senate committee hearing in June 2017

Elections

2016

Cortez Masto declined to run for governor of Nevada in the 2014 election.[25] When U.S. Senator Harry Reid decided not to run for reelection in the 2016 election, he endorsed her as his successor.[5] Cortez Masto’s campaign relied heavily on the political infrastructure Reid had assembled.[26] Her Republican opponent was U.S. Representative Joe Heck.

Cortez Masto, who supports increased investments in renewable energy technology, was supported by the League of Conservation Voters.[27] She was also financially supported by pro-choice groups, such as EMILY’s List and Planned Parenthood, and by End Citizens United, a political action committee seeking to overturn Citizens United v. FEC.[28]

Cortez Masto won 47% of the vote (520,658 votes) to Heck’s 45% (494,427 votes). While Heck carried 16 of Nevada’s counties and its equivalents, Cortez Masto won Clark County, home to over 70% of the state’s population, by over 82,000 votes, over three times her statewide margin of 27,000 votes.[1] She took office on January 3, 2017, becoming the first Latina in the U.S. Senate.[29]

2022

On February 24, 2021, Cortez Masto announced that she would run for reelection in 2022.[30] Among her challengers was her successor as attorney general and 2018 nominee for governor Adam Laxalt.[31] Cortez Masto trailed in many polls and was widely seen as the most vulnerable incumbent Democratic U.S. senator. But she narrowly defeated Laxalt, securing a second term.[2][32]

Tenure

Cortez Masto was participating in the certification of the 2021 United States Electoral College vote count when Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. She was on the Senate floor, preparing to speak, when the Capitol was breached. Cortez Masto could hear the attackers just outside the chamber, which was secured by Capitol Police. As the attackers neared the chamber, she and her fellow senators were moved to an undisclosed secure location.[33] Cortez Masto tweeted while sheltering in place, calling the attack “un-American and unacceptable”.[34]

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Caucus memberships

Nomination of Adeel Mangi to Federal Appeals Court and appointment of Emil Bove to the same vacancy

In March 2024, Cortez Masto announced she would not support President Biden’s nomination of Adeel Mangi to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, citing his association with the Alliance of Families for Justice, a criminal justice reform group that advocates on behalf of families affected by mass incarceration.[38] His nomination remained blocked, and in November 2024 it was withdrawn, leaving the position open for the incoming Trump administration to fill.[39] After Cortez Masto blocked Mangi’s nomination, President Trump appointed Emil Bove, a controversial nominee who was accused of defying court orders[40] and later attended a Trump rally in Pennsylvania shortly after he became a federal judge,[41] to the vacancy.[42] Cortez Masto voted against Bove’s nomination, but he was confirmed.[43] Bove’s appointment to the position to which Cortez Masto refused to confirm Mangi effectively flipped control of the intermediate federal appellate court that has jurisdiction over all federal court appeals from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and the U.S. Virgin Islands to a conservative majority.[44]

Political positions

Cortez Masto voted in line with Joe Biden‘s stated position 96% of the time.[45]

Cannabis

Cortez Masto cosponsored the bipartisan STATES Act proposed in the 115th Congress by senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory Gardner that would exempt individuals or corporations in compliance with state cannabis laws from federal enforcement of the Controlled Substances Act.[46]

Environment

Cortez Masto recognizes the existence of human-caused climate change and believes that the federal government should limit power plants’ greenhouse gas emissions.[47] She supports the growth of green jobs and increasing Nevada’s reliance on solar power and other forms of sustainable energy. She opposes the use of Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository.[48] Cortez Masto was a member of the Senate Democrats’ Special Committee on the Climate Crisis, which published a report of its findings in August 2020.[49]

Filibuster

Cortez Masto supports reforming the filibuster of the United States Senate into a talking filibuster.[50][51][52]

Foreign policy

In October 2017, Cortez Masto condemned the genocide of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar and called for a stronger response to the crisis.[53]

In August 2025, Cortez Masto was one of 23 Democratic senators, a minority of Senate Democrats, who voted to continue arms sales to Israel during the Gaza War/Gaza genocide.[54] In April 2026, she was one of just seven Democratic senators still voting to continue such sales.[55]

Gun policy

The National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) has given Cortez Masto an “F” grade because of her support for gun control.[56] During the 2016 election, the organization spent $1 million on an attack ad against her.[57] Cortez Masto opposes allowing people on the terrorist watchlist to buy guns, saying that “makes no sense”.[58]

In response to the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, she co-sponsored a bill with Dianne Feinstein to ban bump stocks. She said that it can be a start toward decreasing gun violence and mass shootings.[59]

Health care

Cortez Masto does not support the repeal of the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare).[47] She does support improving upon the act, which she has called “imperfect”. She has co-sponsored the Marketplace Certainty Act to bring more stability to the health insurance marketplace.[60]

Immigration

In June 2019, after the Housing and Urban Development Department confirmed that Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients did not meet eligibility for federal backed loans, Cortez Masto and 11 other senators introduced the Home Ownership Dreamers Act, legislation mandating that the federal government not be authorized to deny mortgage loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, or the Agriculture Department solely due to applicants’ immigration status.[61]

In July 2019, Cortez Masto was one of 16 Senate Democrats to have introduced the Protecting Sensitive Locations Act, which mandated that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents get a supervisor’s approval before engaging in enforcement actions at sensitive locations (except in special circumstances), that agents receive annual training, and that they be required to report annually on enforcement actions at those locations.[62]

In January 2026, after Alex Pretti became the second U.S. citizen to be shot and killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis that month, Cortez Masto announced she would vote against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill. Despite having previously been one of eight Senate Democrats who voted to end a government shutdown standoff weeks earlier, Cortez Masto opposed the DHS measure, saying ICE operations in Minnesota were “brutalizing U.S. citizens and law-abiding immigrants” and that the enforcement actions were “clearly not about keeping Americans safe”.[63]

LGBT rights

Cortez Masto supports same-sex marriage.[47]

Reproductive rights

Cortez Masto supports legalized abortion.[47] In the 2016 election, she was endorsed by Planned Parenthood and funded by their action fund.[64]

She does not believe that companies should be allowed to withhold coverage for birth control based on religious beliefs.[47]

Puerto Rico

In July 2024, Cortez Masto began working with a committee to plan to sponsor legislation granting Puerto Rico a self-determination referendum with federal repeal.[65]

Personal life

Cortez Masto lives in Las Vegas with her husband, Paul Masto, a retired United States Secret Service special agent.[66] She is Roman Catholic.[67][68][69]

Electoral history

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2010 Attorney General election in Nevada[71]
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2016 United States Senate election in Nevada – Democratic primary
PartyCandidateVotes%
DemocraticCatherine Cortez Masto 81,944 81.0%
DemocraticAllen Rheinhart5,6456.0%
DemocraticNone of these candidates5,4985.0%
DemocraticLiddo Susan O’Briant4,8345.0%
DemocraticBobby Mahendra3,7603.0%
Total votes101,681 100.0%
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2022 United States Senate election in Nevada[73]
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