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Wall Street Journal: Gas Prices Fuel New Views by Democrats on Offshore Drilling
Review-Journal: Porter Kicks-Off Re-Election Bid Against Dina Titus
Review-Journal: Porter, Heller Join Protest Over Energy
Review-Journal: Titus Trails Porter in Fundraising
Review-Journal: Titus Flip-Flop
Review-Journal: Porter Tries to Force House Vote on Offshore Drilling
Review-Journal: House OK’s Bill to Rescue Homeowners
Review-Journal: Porter Pans Titus on Offshore Drilling
Las Vegas Sun: Porter Energizes Colleagues to Press for U.S. Tourism Fund
August 21, 2008
LAS VEGAS — Dina Titus launched her general-election campaign for the House seat representing Nevada’s third district with a speech straight from the Democratic playbook, pledging an end to the Iraq war and using the word “change” nine times in the span of a minute.
But when she turned to the issue uppermost on […]
August 14, 2008
Rep. Jon Porter kicked off his re-election campaign Wednesday, saying his bid for a fourth term in Congress will be about a record of “finding solutions to problems.”
Before a group of about 80 supporters at the newly constructed permanent building for the Nevada State College in Henderson, Porter touted the government projects he […]
August 11, 2008
Try to say it fast three times: Summer shadow session. Summer shadow session. Summer shadow session.
Tough, isn’t it?
If Capitol Hill ever is sleepy, it is during the annual August recess, when the men and women of Congress are far away, skeleton-crew staffers wear shorts and flip-flops, and lunches off campus at Tortilla Coast […]
August 7, 2008
State Sen. Dina Titus, the Democrat hoping to unseat Rep. Jon Porter in the 3rd Congressional District, kept up an aggressive fundraising pace last month but still has less than half of Porter’s campaign war chest, according to campaign finance disclosures filed last week with the Federal Election Commission.
Titus took in $87,000 from […]
July 31, 2008
Republicans think they’ve found a winner in the offshore drilling issue. With gasoline prices at near-record highs, many Americans now support the sensible notion that the country needs to tap its domestic oil reserves to create more supply.
But with radical greens still writing the scripts for members of the congressional Democratic leadership, both […]
July 30, 2008
WASHINGTON — Rep. Jon Porter, R-Nev., filed a petition in Congress this morning seeking to force the House to vote on a Republican bill to end a moratorium on offshore oil drilling.
Porter’s action was the newest GOP strategy to pressure Democrats on offshore drilling. A partisan battle that has roared on Capitol Hill […]
July 24, 2008
WASHINGTON — The House Wednesday easily approved legislation that seeks to slow the steepest slide in house prices in a generation, rescue hundreds of thousands of homeowners at risk of foreclosure and reassure global markets that mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will not be allowed to fail.
The Senate plans to vote […]
July 15, 2008
WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. Jon Porter fired an opening shot on energy Monday against challenger Dina Titus, saying the Democrat has shifted her position on offshore oil drilling as a strategy to combat rising gasoline prices.
Titus, the state senator from Las Vegas, in recent interviews said she supports lifting the federal ban on […]
July 13, 2008
Washington — Caucuses on the Hill operate sort of like extracurricular clubs in college. They are made up of lawmakers with like-minded interests, from the Out of Iraq Caucus to the Frozen Food Caucus.
Rep. Jon Porter is co-chairman of the Travel and Tourism Caucus, which counts more than 100 members — lawmakers from […]
June 26, 2008
Washington, DC- Congressman Jon Porter announced today that the United States Veterans Initiative has been awarded $170,000 through the Homeless Veterans’ Reintegration Program (HVRP), enabling them to serve veterans throughout Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Henderson, Boulder City and Clark County.
HVRP was created under the Department of Labor’s Veterans Employment Training Administration in […]
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