Five years and many modifications later, Congress has finally passed bipartisan legislation to address how the U.S. government deals with threats posed by emissions from the Sun to critical elements of our infrastructure like the electric grid and satellites. PROSWIFT, S. 881, now awaits signature by the President. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Cory Gardner (R-CO) introduced the first version of... Read more »
The House is slated to pass a space weather bill this week, culminating a five-year effort to turn a put elements of a space weather strategy and action plan into law. A schedule released Sept. 11 by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) listed the Promoting Research and Observations of Space Weather to Improve the Forecasting of Tomorrow (PROSWIFT) Act as one of several bills scheduled to be ... Read more »
The COVID-19 pandemic has left us more dependent than ever on advanced information and communication technologies, with many businesses and schools relying on a range of remote services. In this environment, building resilience to potential threats that can disrupt society's essential daily activities is critical. For this reason, it is heartening to see Congress advancing legislation to better pr... Read more »
A staffer for Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) said today that the Congressman will make an all-out effort to get a space weather bill passed this year. Jeff O’Neil, Perlmutter’s Legislative Director, told a group of space weather experts meeting at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine that Perlmutter is intent on ensuring that this is the year the bill becomes law. The legislatio... Read more »
Two Colorado congressman are continuing push for mandatory crash resistant fuel systems (CRFS) in all helicopter air ambulances. Democrats U.S. Reps. Joe Neguse (CO-02) and Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) renewed their call for their colleagues to pass Safe Helicopters Now Act, which provides operators who install the safer fuel systems with offsetting tax credits. Those systems are already required in new-... Read more »
On the five year anniversary of the Flight for Life helicopter crash that took the life of Patrick Mahany and severely injured the two flight nurses on board in Frisco, Colorado, Congressman Joe Neguse (CO-02), alongside Congressman Ed Perlmutter (CO-07), is pushing for Congress to take up the Safe Helicopters Now Act, legislation introduced by the pair to provide helicopter operators with a tax c... Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Following Governor Jared Polis’ signing of Colorado House Bill 20-1326, legislation to improve military spouse licensure practices in the state, the entire Colorado Congressional Delegation, Polis, and Lieutenant Governor Dianne Primavera wrote to Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett to highlight the new Colorado law and further demonstrate that C... Read more »
One small step for man, one giant leap for womankind. NASA is expected to move forward in the coming weeks with Artemis, a program designed to land the first woman on the moon in preparation for sending crews to Mars. “Our calling is to go farther into the solar system than ever before,” reads NASA’s Artemis website. “To prepare for Mars we must study and prove new human deep space capabilities on... Read more »
Donald Trump, are you listening? The press release didn't say it, but the message screamed off the page with the news about the bipartisan groundbreaking for the expansion of a aerospace facility in Arvada Thursday. The night U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, a Republican from Yuma, stood with Trump in Colorado Springs, as the president said he hadn't yet made up his mind where he would locate the U.S. Spac... Read more »
Members of Colorado's congressional delegation and state parties lined up along partisan lines to offer their reaction to President Trump's third State of the Union address Tuesday, the night before the Senate is expected to vote on impeachment. The president spoke of the nation's robust economy under his watch, a point of pride for Republicans with doubts and derision from Democrats during the el... Read more »
