The Las Vegas Review-Journal ran a profile Monday on the ongoing Republican "shadow session" in Congress, focusing on the involvement of a pair of Nevada legislators.

Congressional Republicans, including U.S. Reps. Jon Porter (R-Henderson) and Dean Heller (R-Carson City) are in Washington despite the August recess, and both spoke last week in protest of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's refusal to take a vote on a bill to expand off-shore oil drilling.

The Review-Journal featured Porter's and Heller's remarks, and gauged the reaction back home on the two lawmakers' presence at a darkened Capitol.

An exerpt of the piece is below:

"Nevada Republicans Dean Heller and Jon Porter returned to Washington last week after party leaders sent out a memo urging, 'Let's keep the floor protest going!'

In his presentation, Heller charged that energy prices were hurting rural ranchers. Porter warned that 'the lights are starting to dim' in Las Vegas.

Democrats said the GOP's summer session was no more than an election-year sideshow.

'I want to work across the aisle, but Jon apparently believes that participating in a partisan stunt is enough to fix the problem,' said Porter's Democratic opponent, state Sen. Dina Titus. 'I don't think it will solve any problem.'"