Watch Senator Rosen’s remarks HERE.
LAKE TAHOE, NV – Today, at the 28th annual Lake Tahoe Summit, U.S. Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) highlighted the importance of continued bipartisan work to preserve and protect Lake Tahoe for generations to come. The theme of this year’s summit was “Connecting Tahoe: Investing in Transit, Trails, and Technology for the Future,” and Senator Rosen highlighted her work across party lines to secure major investments to improve transportation infrastructure around the Lake. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg was this year’s keynote speaker, joining state and local officials, environmental advocates, Tribal leaders, and other stakeholders.
Senator Rosen has consistently worked across the aisle to protect Lake Tahoe and ensure it has the federal resources it needs to thrive. Earlier this year, Senator Rosen joined Senator Cortez Masto in helping introduce and pass bipartisan legislation out of the Senate to extend the authorization of the Lake Tahoe Restoration Act for 10 years. She also delivered critical funding to protect Lake Tahoe in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and recently helped secure $24 million to extend the popular East Shore Trail around Lake Tahoe.
Below is an excerpt of Senator Rosen’s remarks:
We all have a responsibility to preserve and protect Lake Tahoe for future generations, learning from lessons from the past and science of the present to protect the future.
And for decades, the Tahoe Summit has been essential in bringing delegations from both states, across both parties, to reaffirm the joint efforts to keep Lake Tahoe healthy on Team Tahoe. We’re just on Team Tahoe. That’s what brings us together.
And in doing so, we’re protecting the national treasure, we’re investing in local jobs, we’re supporting small local businesses.
And while Tahoe’s water [may be] blue, it is certainly not “Democratic” or “Republican.” We’re just Team Tahoe.
And thanks to bipartisan leaders that are here today, all of you here today, we put our differences aside, we find the common ground, we work together to get things done for the lake.
And it’s similar to the work that I’ve done in the United States Senate: looking for ways to work with anyone – Republican, Democrat, or Independent – to deliver for Nevada. Team Nevada. That’s what we have to work on.
And this approach, this is how we got the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which is providing that millions of dollars of federal funding to protect Lake Tahoe and improve the infrastructure around it.
I was very proud, very proud to be part of the bipartisan group that wrote this landmark law, and I’m even prouder to bring more than $24 million, along with Senator Cortez Masto, to extend the Tahoe East Shore Trail.
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In Congress, we’ve been working across both our states – California and Nevada – and across and both parties – to reauthorize the Lake Tahoe Restoration Act.
This law is critical to bring those federal funds to protect the environment, to protect the ecosystem, support our local jobs, strengthen our sustainable tourism, and keep this place as beautiful and pristine as always, and improve it.
And Senator Cortez Masto, I’m so proud to have worked with her to pass bipartisan legislation to extend it for the next ten years. And, Congressmen, we look forward to seeing that pass the House of Representatives, please. You’ve got your work to do. We’re counting on you.
I know you’ll deliver, because protecting the lake’s future requires people dedicated at every level of government working together, and these are just a few of the things that we’re doing at the federal level to get it done, bringing together local, state, community leaders.
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