New Dems Release Report on American Prosperity Agenda Includes Four Bills Introduced by Rep. Perlmutter This week, the New Democrat Coalition - of which U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) is a member - released a report detailing efforts of its members to advance the tenets laid out in the Coalition’s American Prosperity Agenda. The Prosperity Agenda, originally released in March 2015, outlines 24 principles the group supports to grow the economy, preserve the American Dream, and make government w... Read more

Content originally published by The Denver Post on March 21st, 2016. Fresh from meetings with top foreign ministers in Cuba, Colorado congressman Ed Perlmutter said Monday that Congress should lift the longstanding embargo the U.S. has imposed on its Cold War adversary. It s time to move on and that embargo should be repealed, said Perlmutter, one of about three dozen members of Congress who traveled to Cuba this week with President Barack Obama. There are real opportunities for America and for... Read more

Perlmutter Statement on Nomination of Judge Merrick Garland for Supreme Court Justice “Today, President Obama fulfilled his constitutional responsibility by nominating Chief Judge Merrick Garland to be a Supreme Court Justice. With more federal judicial experience than any other Supreme Court nominee in history and widely recognized as one of the best appellate judges in the country, Judge Garland is undeniably one of the most qualified individuals to serve on our nation’s highest court. "Judge... Read more

Content originally published by The Denver Post on March 14th, 2016. Re: “Houston, we have an opportunity — it’s called Mars,” March 9 guest commentary. Thank you, Reps. Ed Perlmutter and Lamar Smith, for championing exploration to Mars. Last month I heard a talk on the New Horizons mission to Pluto. The information and the photos that were received of that dwarf planet and its moons were truly remarkable. Imagine trying to position a spacecraft within a range of 250 miles over a distance of 3 ... Read more

Content originally published by The Denver Post on March 8th, 2016. Last week, Astronaut Scott Kelly returned from an almost one-year mission to test the effects of space travel on the human body. Kelly's experiment directly contributes to our understanding of the challenges NASA must overcome to send astronauts to deep-space destinations like Mars. And one of our best opportunities to go there is right around the corner. Seventeen years from now, Earth and Mars will be aligned for what could b... Read more

Content originally published by the Westminster Window on March 7th, 2016. Perlmutter extends invitation to 7th District students for annual Congressional Art Competition Submissions are now being accepted from all area high-school students for the annual Congressional Art Competition, Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-7th District) announced last week. Each spring, the Congressional Institute sponsors a nationwide high school art competition to recognize and encourage artistic talent in each congressional... Read more

Content originally published by Denver Business Journal on March 1st, 2016. U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-Golden) said for the past several years he’s heard a chorus of concerns from community banks. The regulatory burdens created under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, passed in 2010, are killing them. They have to spend time and money on compliance personnel and paperwork for things their banks don't do – like investment banking. “They are facing regulations that are... Read more

Perlmutter Invites Students to Participate in Annual Congressional Art Competition U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) invites all high school students from the 7th Congressional District to participate in the annual Congressional Art Competition. Each spring, the Congressional Institute sponsors a nationwide high school art competition to recognize and encourage artistic talent in each congressional district across the country. Since the Artistic Discovery competition began in 1982, more than 650,... Read more

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Ashley Verville ashley.verville@mail.house.gov | (303) 274-7944 Perlmutter Introduces Regulatory Relief Legislation for “Traditional Banks” Helps community banks and other non-systemic banksstruggling with increased regulatory burden and costs U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) introduced legislation today to provide targeted relief to “traditional banks” - institutions that do not require extra regulatory scrutiny or pose a systemic risk to the economy. The Tr... Read more

Content originally published by the American Banker on February 29th, 2016. A bank regulatory relief plan put forward by Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Vice Chairman Thomas Hoenig is getting support in the House. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo., introduced legislation on Friday that would implement Hoenig's plan by providing regulatory relief to "traditional banks" that hold no trading assets, hold only interest rate and foreign exchange derivative positions with exposure of less than $3 billion a... Read more