Nearly 70 years after performing the acts of valor that earned him seven prestigious war medals for his service in the U.S. Army, 95-year-old WWII veteran Oscar Reiss, Ph.D was finally presented his medals in a formal ceremony Aug. 3. Reiss contacted Rep. Ed Perlmutter’s office to ask for a medal ceremony for the Silver Star Medal and Purple Heart Medal that had already been awarded to him without ceremony, and in the process, Perlmutter’s office discovered that Reiss earned five additional meda... Read more

The news is finally official: The Drug Enforcement Administration denied a five-year-old marijuana rescheduling petition on Thursday morning. It was the fourth consecutive time the DEA has denied a petition to reschedule cannabis, and the agency’s announcement sent shockwaves throughout America’s legal pot industry. The decision, which will likely push medical marijuana research forward while keeping cannabis within the ultra-restrictive Schedule I classification, also caught the attention of re... Read more

Nearly 70 years since his time as a soldier, World War II veteran Oscar Reiss on Wednesday was finally awarded his distinguished war medals, five of which he didn’t know he earned until earlier this year. The 95-year-old Reiss filed a request with U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter’s office in April, asking a formal ceremony for the Silver Star and Purple Heart medals he earned in World War II but was never formally presented. While processing those honors, it was discovered Reiss was due five additional ... Read more

A $230 million project to expand Interstate 25 between Loveland and Fort Collins has netted a $15 million grant from the federal government. The money came from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s highly competitive Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) Discretionary Grant Program, which helps pay for road, rail, transit and port projects. The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) had asked for $25 million, according to an April 2016 letter of support for the... Read more

Simplifying complex regulation and finding enough workers to grow and innovate top the list of priorities for Colorado business and civic leaders who were given the chance to help shape the federal government’s business priorities at an event Thursday. Officials from local industry, economic development organizations, local government officials, representatives of federal labs and higher education gathered Thursday at the Wheat Ridge Recreation Center to discuss expanding the digital economy and... Read more

Congressman Ed Perlmutter in a telephone town hall meeting last week encouraged his constituents to speak out against gun violence. The telephone town hall meeting was part of the National Day of Action for Commonsense Gun Violence Protection, and came just a week or so after Perlmutter participated in the historic “sit-in” filibuster with dozens of other Democratic members of the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. The sit-in was staged to force a vote on pending gun reform measures. J... Read more

JUST four years after Washington and Colorado led in legalizing recreational uses of marijuana, the pot train has left the station. Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia allow legal marijuana access in some form, with legislatures in Ohio and Pennsylvania approving medical marijuana in 2016. Full legalization measures are polling well in California and Nevada. Nationwide, a majority of Americans now support tossing out the drug-war ban on cannabis. But Congress hasn’t gotten on board. ... Read more

KUSA - Somewhere around the seven-hour mark, Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-Colorado) took a break from the sit-in Democrats were staging on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Perlmutter stepped off the floor for a moment to talk to 9NEWS about two gun control measures he and fellow Democrats want the Republican leadership to allow the House to consider. “One that says that if you’re on the terrorist watch list, you can’t buy a gun and the other says we need to have good background checks a... Read more

The U.S. House of Representatives finally adjourned until July 5 after sit-in protests by Democrats halted business in the chamber for more than 17 hours. Despite the decision to end the legislative session, more than a dozen Democratic members, including Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., were still protesting on the House floor as of this morning. It's unclear exactly how Democrats will proceed with their efforts to bring up a vote on gun control. The unprecedented demonstration, which w... Read more

WASHINGTON, DC (CBS4) – Reps. Ed Perlmutter and Diana DeGette were among a number of Democrats who sat down on the House floor on Wednesday. They demanded that the House take a vote on gun control measures. Perlmutter and DeGette, Democrats representing Colorado, joined others in their party at the U.S Capital. The bills they are referring to are in particular two bills addressing universal background checks and preventing individuals on the Terrorist Watch List from purchasing firearms (“No Fl... Read more