The statement said the team will advance MGM Resorts’ position on “critical issues, such as travel, tourism and gaming.” Khanna’s team, MGM Resorts said, will include Norman Ross, vice president of federal government affairs, who will work from Washington, and Denice Miller, senior vice president of government affairs, who will work from Nevada. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and an attorney at the Office of General Counsel at the U.S. She was also an international trade counsel on the U.S. Khanna served as chief counsel to Harry Reid, D-Nev., who recently retired after 30 years in the Senate. In a statement last Thursday, MGM Resorts, which operates 10 Strip hotel-casinos, said Ayesha Khanna will lead the new Washington office as senior vice president for federal government affairs. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) Resorts International has bought a new Washington, D.C., office building to use as a base for advancing public policy initiatives. Guests play roulette during opening night at MGM National Harbor hotel-casino in Oxon Hill, Md.