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 »
Coloradans in Congress invited several guests to President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night in Washington, D.C. Colorado representatives used the invitation to draw attention to issues including gun violence and veteran suicide. A father of one of the Columbine High School shooting victims was in the audience. Tom Mauser attended the State of the Union as a guest of Rep. Joe Neguse... Read more »
Twenty years ago, Tom Mauser was sitting in a congressional gallery, two seats down from the first lady, and watching President Bill Clinton describe his son, Daniel, as “an amazing kid, a straight-A student, a good skier.” Daniel had, in the president’s words, been “gunned down at Columbine” the year before. On Tuesday night, Tom Mauser will return to Congress for another State of the Union addre... Read more »
It’s a mad dash to the finish line for Congress. And not just when it comes to the impeachment process. Lawmakers are trying to send some must-pass legislation, including two appropriations bills that would avert a government shutdown, to the president’s desk. The House passed an almost $1.4 trillion dollar spending plan on Tuesday and sent it to the Senate, which will debate and likely pass the b... Read more »
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Voting Rights Advancement Act on Friday by a vote of 228-187, with only one Republican joining all Democrats in voting yes. All four Colorado Democrats — U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette, Joe Neguse, Jason Crow and Ed Perlmutter — were cosponsors of the legislation, a response to the 2013 U.S. Supreme Court case of Shelby County v. Holder. In that ruling, on a ... Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and U.S. Representative Ed Perlmutter (CO-7) today called on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to review the agency’s denial of a petition to add a new class of Rocky Flats workers previously excluded from a Special Exposure Cohort compensation program. The class of workers, employed by the plant from 1984 to 2005, were expose... Read more »
The U.S. House passed legislation on Friday that would give the federal government broader authority to police voting rights violations across the country. The bill, a top priority for House Democrats, passed by a vote of 228-187, with just one Republican — Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania — breaking party ranks to vote for the measure. The vote “is the most important non-violent instrument ... Read more »
At the Natural Grocers in Lakewood, next to the dairy aisle, shoppers got a free sample of what Rep. Ed Perlmutter calls “Government in the Grocery.” Perlmutter is a Democrat representing Congressional District 7. “The theory behind being we’re going to the people’s place, the grocery store… to make it more accessible for folks,” said Perlmutter, who has held the one-on-one constituent meetings si... Read more »
On Sept. 14, U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) held his 100th of his Government in the Grocery events. He started the Government in the Grocery program when he first took office in 2007 to meet directly with 7th congressional district constituents in their community. The first Government in the Grocery was held on Jan. 27, 2007 in Wheat Ridge, and the 100th was held in Lakewood. “I believe being acc... Read more »
