Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives voted 217 – 213 to pass the American Health Care Act (AHCA): “The Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act has gone from bad to worse. Protecting people with preexisting conditions was at the heart of the ACA and eliminating this protection is eliminating a civil right. Each of us knows someone with a preexisting condition and failing to ensure adequate... Read more

After nearly 23 hours of debate, House lawmakers on Thursday advanced one of President Trump's top promises to dismantle the "horrendous" Dodd-Frank financial regulations that were put in place during the Obama administration. The House Financial Services Committee voted 34 to 26 along party lines, passing the Financial Choice Act, a Republican bill to undo the 2010 financial reform law. GOP lawmakers blame the Dodd-Frank regulations for choking U.S. economic growth and crimping lending by banks... Read more

The House Financial Services Committee approved a bill Thursday to repeal and roll back significant pieces of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The panel voted to send Chairman Jeb Hensarling’s (R-Texas) Financial CHOICE Act to the House floor, 34-26, along party lines. The bill would accomplish much of a long-term GOP goal: to revoke the expansive financial regulations passed under President Obama after the 2008 financial crisis and long protected by Democrats. All ... Read more

When Arturo Hernandez Garcia was freed Tuesday night from an immigration detention center in the Denver area after a week of being held pending his deportation, the first thing he wanted to do on Wednesday morning was go to work. His wife persuaded him to do otherwise, and the 44-year-old Mexican father of two girls, who has lived in Colorado for more than 15 years, instead went to a court hearing to support a fellow person living in the U.S. unlawfully. Work, he said, would wait until Thursday.... Read more

WASHINGTON – The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to pass the American Health Care Act, the bill concocted by House Republicans and President Donald Trump to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act passed under President Barack Obama. The bill passed narrowly, 217-213, after extensive debate Thursday morning over how the recently-revived and revised bill would affect people with pre-existing conditions. Colorado’s seven House members voted as follows: Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO1) – ... Read more

KUSA - In a huge victory for House Republicans, the U.S. House passed a bill that would repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act Thursday by a 217 to 213 vote. Twenty Republicans voted no on the bill, as did all of the Democrats. Rep. Mike Coffman -- notably Colorado's only yes on the GOP's failed iteration of the ACA repeal -- was one of those votes. Republican Reps. Ken Buck, Scott Tipton and Doug Lamborn all voted yes. Colorado congressmen began to release statements about the vote Thursday... Read more

Washington, D.C. – This week, U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) helped lead the fight against Republican efforts to roll back consumer and investor protections in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank). The Republican legislation, the Financial CHOICE Act of 2017 (H.R. 10), undermines and outright repeals critical safeguards in Dodd-Frank, unleashing the same behavior on Wall Street that led to the 2008 financial crisis. Perlmutter was instrumental in passing Do... Read more

The House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday killed a handful of Democratic amendments aimed at altering some of the most significant overhauls contained in Chairman Jeb Hensarling’s plan to replace the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, especially those related to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The panel voted along party lines to reject one Democratic amendment to the Texas Republican’s Financial CHOICE Act that would have preserved the CFPB’s independent funding stream. The GOP proposal, ... Read more

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) issued the following statement today after the U.S. House of Representatives passed an Omnibus Appropriations package for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2017: “I’m pleased that Congress was able to work in a bipartisan fashion to avert a shutdown and fund the government through September 30, 2017. However it is alarming that President Trump is already calling for a “shutdown” in future budget negotiations. The work of running and funding the gover... Read more

Arturo Hernandez Garcia, the first person to claim sanctuary in Colorado, was released from ICE custody late Tuesday, fueling hopes an appeals court will allow him to stay in the United States for good. Hernandez Garcia was “granted a brief reprieve” so he could attend his daughter’s high school graduation, said his attorney, Laura Lichter, on Tuesday night. His legal team will use this time to ask an appeals court to revisit his case, Lichter said. “Mr. Hernandez (Garcia) and his family have be... Read more