Executives from four companies feeling hamstrung by big tech aired their grievances in front of members of Congress at CU Boulder Friday. Members of the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law hosted their first field hearing in a decade in the University of Colorado Law School’s Wittemyer Courtroom. Startups Basecamp, PopSockets, Tile and Sonos each had representatives ... Read more »

Concern that giant tech companies like Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google are using their digital might to shape markets unfairly took a local turn Friday as a Congressional antitrust subcommittee held a hearing in Boulder. Inside the Wittemyer Courtroom at the University of Colorado Law School, lawmakers including U.S. Reps. Ken Buck, R-Windsor, and Joe Neguse, D-Lafayette, listened to testimony ... Read more »

The founder of PopSockets in Boulder is taking on some of the most powerful tech companies in the world. David Barnett is among four small business executives who went before a Congressional subcommittee and accused Amazon, Google, Apple and Facebook of violating antitrust laws. “It’s a language of one party being in power over another party that’s powerless,” said Barnett. The antitrust subcommit... Read more »

Jason Crow, an Aurora Democrat serving his first term in Congress, is one of seven House members named Wednesday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to prosecute articles of impeachment charging President Donald Trump with abusing his power and obstructing Congress. Hours after the House voted to send the charges to the Senate, Crow and the other members of the prosecution team — known as "managers" — w... Read more »

By a vote of 247-159, the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday voted to pass the PFAS Action Act, one of dozens of pieces of legislation to regulate and research a group of cancer-causing chemicals. “Our community, home to Buckley Air Force Base, knows the hazardousness of PFAS all too well. We’ve seen elevated levels of PFAS in the groundwater in Colorado and it’s time it was addressed,” said ... Read more »

Coloradans in Congress were divided along party lines Thursday when the U.S. House of Representatives voted to limit President Donald Trump’s ability to attack Iran. By a vote of 224-194, the House approved a resolution ordering Trump not to further attack Iran or its military until Congress has declared war or there is “an imminent armed attack” planned against the United States. Colorado’s four ... Read more »

The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology on Thursday advanced a bill from U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter to improve the forecasting and understanding of severe and potentially damaging space weather events. “This issue first came to my attention over four years ago from CU-Boulder’s Dr. Dan Baker who provided testimony about the dangers of space weather events on the electric grid,” Perlmutte... Read more »

Iran and the U.S. are ratcheting down the rhetoric following a ballistic missile strike on Iraqi bases housing U.S. forces. But a Trump administration briefing on Iran failed to defuse tensions on Capitol Hill over the events of the last week. Like many issues on the Hill, the success of the briefing was split along party lines. And that concerns Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet. “This is the absolu... Read more »

Wherever you go this time of year, there’s always one street that goes a little overboard with holiday decorations — maybe egged on by a neighbor or two. Well, the halls of the U.S. Capitol aren’t immune. This year it got a helping hand from Colorado Reps. Jason Crow and Ed Perlmutter. It started with a not-so-innocent comment from Crow. The two Democrats have offices in the same hallway. Crow’s o... Read more »

Colorado Congresswoman Diana DeGette presided over the historic impeachment of the President of the United States, for only the second time in our nation’s history. The House of Representatives voted on two articles of impeachment – abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. As expected, both passed. All but two Democrats voted in favor of article one – abuse of power – and all Republicans oppos... Read more »