FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Ashley Verville ashley.verville@mail.house.gov | (303) 274-7944 “Since learning of the initial proposed selection of the temporary migrant shelter at the Federal Center, my office has worked to reassure the community and collaborate closely with our federal, state and local partners. After personally visiting the site, it quickly became evident that setting up a facility of this magnitude was going to be a monumental undertaking. While I wish HHS had conduct... Read more

Content originally published by 9news on February 11th, 2016. KUSA – A pair of Colorado congressmen plan to introduce legislation Friday that would urge the Federal Aviation Administration to require all newly built helicopters to have crash resistant fuel systems by the end of the year. The news follows a lengthy 9Wants to Know investigation into a fiery Flight for Life crash in Frisco that left a Colorado flight nurse with catastrophic and life-threatening burns on most of his body. Seconds a... Read more

Content originally published by CNN Money on February 10th, 2016. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and Congress don't see eye to eye. Yellen testified for over three hours before the House Financial Services Committee Wednesday and lawmakers heavily criticized the Fed's monetary policy, the state of the economy and even high rates of black unemployment. Yellen returns to Capitol Hill Thursday to testify before the Senate. Here's a few key takeaways from Yellen's first day on Capitol Hill. 1. ... Read more

Content originally published by CNN Money on February 10th, 2016. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and Congress don't see eye to eye. Yellen testified for over three hours before the House Financial Services Committee Wednesday and lawmakers heavily criticized the Fed's monetary policy, the state of the economy and even high rates of black unemployment. Yellen returns to Capitol Hill Thursday to testify before the Senate. Here's a few key takeaways from Yellen's first day on Capitol Hill. 1. ... Read more

Content originally published by the Denver Post on February 5th, 2016. Just this afternoon another reporter from another newspaper said what I was thinking: These Super Bowl bets between elected officials is getting a bit stale. Maybe that’s a product of Denver going to so many Super Bowls, which is a nice problem to have. And, granted, this year more elected officials opted to do some social good, rather than bison, barbecue and beer. The legislature, Democrats working with Republicans, raised... Read more

Content originally published by Space.com on February 4th, 2016. NASA can't afford to put humans on Mars while also pursuing missions to put astronauts back on the moon, according to a panel of experts who testified to the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Space yesterday (Feb. 3). "Today the future of NASA's human spaceflight program is far from clear," said Tom Young, former director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "There has been continual debate about should we go to the ... Read more

Content originally published by the Westminster Window on February 1st, 2016. More than 400 area students and parents spent their Saturday morning searching for hidden treasure in the least likely of places: Westminster High School. But instead of a pot of gold, the figurative treasure seekers — teens and their parents, mostly — were searching for information to help them pay for post-secondary education without finding a pile of debt waiting at the end of the graduation line. “There’s a lot of... Read more

Content originally published by BizWest on January 22, 2016. U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo., has the right idea. His Marijuana Businesses Access to Banking Act, last introduced in April, would address a growing problem for the nation’s marijuana businesses: access to banking services for what remains illegal under federal law. Congressional action is the only solution, and we hope Perlmutter reintroduces his bill in 2016. A recent federal court ruling dismissed a lawsuit over establishment of... Read more

Content originally published by The Denver Post on January 19th, 2016. Several thousand people joined a telephone town hall Tuesday to probe the details of a temporary shelter being readied at the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood to house unaccompanied immigrant children who have entered the United States illegally. Local residents asked Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Arvada, and federal officials from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Homeland Security and the General... Read more

Originally published by The Denver Post on January 15th, 2016. In an utterly predictable ruling, a federal judge recently dismissed a lawsuit that sought approval for the establishment of a credit union for marijuana businesses in Colorado. Much as we favor such a credit union, why would anyone expect any other outcome? Judges, after all, look at issues through the lens of the law. And while marijuana continues to gain footholds as a legal drug on the state level, at the federal level it remain... Read more