Washington D.C. – Today U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) applauded the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2021, which includes several provisions important for Colorado. “I’m proud the NDAA includes several of my provisions prioritizing the health and environmental safety of Coloradans, specifically firefighters and former nuclear weapons workers,” said Perlmutter. “This bill ... Read more »

Today, U.S. Representatives Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Judy Chu (CA-27) and Zoe Lofgen (CA-19) led 173 members of Congress in urging the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Inspector General Joseph Cuffari to open an immediate investigation into new whistleblower allegations of mass hysterectomies being performed on women detained at the privately-run Irwin County Detenti... Read more »

Lakewood, Colo.- Today U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) held a telephone town hall with Jeff Kraft, OEDIT’s Director of Business Funding and Incentives; Cher Haavind, Deputy Executive Director and Jeff Fitzgerald, Unemployment Insurance Director of the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment and Dr. Bernadette Albanese, a Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist and Medical Epidemiologist at the... Read more »

Six House Democrats on Wednesday asked World Bank President David Malpass to explain an August meeting with the Ukrainan president amid President Trump’s decision to withhold defense aid from Ukraine. The lawmakers voiced concerns that Malpass’s meeting with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on Aug. 23 in Kyiv could be seen as a part of Trump’s pressure campaign that resulted in his impeachment... 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 »

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 »

Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google took a public lashing at a congressional hearing here Friday, where some of their smaller rivals, including Sonos and Tile, pleaded with federal lawmakers to take swift action against Big Tech. Democrats and Republicans at times appeared stunned as they heard tales of technology giants wielding their massive footprints as weapons, allegedly copying smaller compe... Read more »

For all the criticisms directed at the largest tech companies in the last couple of years, few smaller rivals have been willing to speak up publicly. That changed for a couple of hours on Friday, as executives at four businesses pleaded with federal lawmakers to rein in Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon. At a congressional hearing in Boulder, Colo., top executives of Sonos, PopSockets, Basecamp ... 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 »