This article was published by The Hill on May 22, 2013. Click Here for the article. Congressman Perlmutter added, "People have an expectation of privacy when using social media like Facebook and Twitter. They have an expectation that their right to free speech and religion will be respected when they use social media outlets. Without this protection, employers essentially can act as imposters and assume the identity of an employee and continually access, monitor and even manipulate an employee's...
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This article was published by the Denver Post on May 21, 2013. Click Here for the article. "What was billed as Congressman Ed Perlmutter’s 60th birthday party seemed more like a Democratic kickoff for the 2014 election."
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This article was published in the Concord Monitor on May 11, 2013. Click here for the article Congressman Perlmutter said that the US has always “treated all of its creditors equally. . . . We don’t treat it that China or Wall Street or Saudi Arabia, because they’ve loaned us money, get paid before the nurse working in one of our VA hospitals. That’s not America.”
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This article was published in The Wall Street Journal on May 6th, 2013. Click here for the article Representative Perlmutter stated, "I remain committed and focused on ensuring federal programs provide opportunities to those hard working Americans who wish to attain homeownership. Due in large part to a strong housing industry, our overall economy continues to improve and it is important we maintain that positive momentum."
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This article was published by Daily Mail on April 23, 2013. Click here for the article Congressman Perlmutter added, "They have an expectation that their right to free speech and religion will be respected when they use social media outlets. No American should have to provide their confidential personal passwords as a condition of employment."
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This article was published in the Washington Times on March 21, 2013. Click here for the article “In this bill there is substantive legislation, which I believe is out of order in an appropriations bill, which deals with tracing guns used in crimes, and the prohibition to use any information that might be gained from guns used in crimes, in any kind of study to figure out where these are coming from,” Mr.Perlmutter said.
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This article was published in the Denver Post on April 18, 2013. Click here for the article “People have an expectation of privacy when using social media like Facebook and Twitter," said Congressman Perlmutter.
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Story originally posted on denverpost.com on 3/7/13 Click here for the story "The bill passed with the support of 53 Democrats, including Colorado Rep. Ed Perlmutter. It now goes to the Senate, where Democrats and the White House are deep in negotiations with Republicans on changes that would give the Department of Homeland Security and other domestic agencies the same type of flexibility in administering the spending cuts that the Pentagon would receive."
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Story originally posted on denverpost.com on 2/19/13 Click here for the story "Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Jefferson County, is in Germany meeting with German Marshall Fund scholars until Thursday. Then he has some veterans meetings and is speaking to the Colorado Press Association Friday."
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Story originally posted on 9news.com on 2/12/13 Click here for the story "The President is right -- through innovation, education and cooperation, our country will continue on the road to economic recovery and stability. But we can't cut our way to prosperity -- we have to work together in a bipartisan way to cut waste, not jobs."
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