July 19, 2007 U.S. Reps. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07); Diana DeGette (CO-01); Mark Udall (CO-02); Tom Tancredo (CO-06) Marilyn Musgrave (CO-04) and U.S. Senators Wayne Allard and Ken Salazar are pleased to announce that the Regional Transportation District (RTD) will receive $1.1 million from the U.S. Dept. of Transportation to replace outdated buses in the Denver metro area. RTD will receive the grant as part of the DOT’s annual grant awards to fund improvements to local transportation infrastructure.... Read more

July 19, 2007 Today Rep. Ed Perlmutter announced that funding requests for key 7th Congressional District and Colorado projects are included in the House of Representatives Labor/Health and Human Services/Education appropriations bill, HR 3043. The bill, once passed by the House of Representatives will then move to the Senate for debate and passage. Under the bill, the Community College of Aurora will receive $350,000 for their Critical Incident Theatre (CIT). The CIT is a command center to trai... Read more

July 18, 2007 Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that the Denver Urban Area Security Initiative will receive a 79% increase in funds under the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI). UASI is a discretionary program providing funding to high-risk, high-threat urban areas (including counties and mutual aid partners), to prepare for, prevent, and respond to terrorist incidents. Last year, the Denver UASI received $4.38 million, and this year they will receive $7.85 million. T... Read more

Submits Testimony at House Energy & Commerce Committee Hearing July 17, 2007 Today, Congressman Ed Perlmutter submitted testimony at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing regarding the consolidation of seven Food & Drug Administration (FDA) field laboratories. If the FDA goes ahead with their plan, the Denver District Laboratory which is located in the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood would be closed, with a facility in Arkansas becoming the closest lab to the Denver region. "I hope tha... Read more

July 17, 2007 Today, U.S. Rep Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) was appointed as a conferee to the House-Senate conference committee on the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007. The House of Representatives passed H.R. 1 in January as part of their First 100 Hours legislation. The Senate passed the bill in March, but with different provisions. The bill is now headed to conference committee to work out differences between the two versions of the bill. “I want to thank Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Homeland... Read more

July 17, 2007 Below is a statement by Rep. Ed Perlmutter on the resignation of Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Jim Nicholson: "The VA health care system is one of the greatest in the world. Our veterans deserve world class health care, and the next VA secretary will have many challenges to overcome including reducing the claims backlog, shortening the wait time for treatment, screening properly for the mental complications of modern warfare, and investing properly in VA facilities and personnel t... Read more

House of Representatives Passes Energy and Water Appropriations Bill July 17, 2007 Today, a bi-partisan majority the House of Representatives passed HR 2641, the appropriations for Energy and Water development projects, by a vote of 312-112. The bill now moves to the Senate for consideration. This bill allocates funds for energy and water development projects and related agencies for fiscal year 2008. Included in the bill were funding requests made by Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) for key energy pr... Read more

TDA and CSM receive $750,000 from the Department of Energy July 16, 2007 Congressman Ed Perlmutter congratulates TDA Research, Inc. (TDA) and Colorado School of Mines (CSM) on a $750,000 grant as part of Phase II of the Small Business Technology Transfer program (STTR) under the Department of Energy. TDA and CSM are one of 15 small businesses in the nation to receive the grant. With the grant, the group will develop a new material for cost effective production of hydrogen used in efficient, non-... Read more

Demonstrations Include Explosions and Derailed Train at Emergency Response Training center July 11, 2007 U.S. Reps. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) and John Salazar (CO-03) will host the Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson (MS-02), and Undersecretary of Homeland Security, Jay Cohen, at a homeland security demonstration at the Transportation Technology Center, Inc. (TTCI) facility east of Pueblo on Saturday, July 14, 2007. Perlmutter, a member of the House Committee on Home... Read more

July 11, 2007 Today, Rep. Perlmutter voted today to approve legislation that would make the single largest investment in college financial aid since the 1944 GI Bill. This legislation will assist nearly 50,000 Colorado students pay for college, and doing so at no new cost to taxpayers. Rep. Perlmutter is committed to growing and strengthening Colorado ’s middle class. The College Cost Reduction Act will boost college financial aid by about $18 billion over the next five years. In Colorado alone,... Read more