Full Delegation Requested Committee to Look into Mismanagement, Cost Overruns The Colorado Congressional delegation today welcomed the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee’s pledge to work with the delegation to schedule a field hearing and site visit to the Aurora VA Hospital. The delegation sent a bipartisan letter to the committee's chairman, Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA), and ranking member, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), last month requesting the visit to look into the mismanagement that...
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Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) successfully authored an amendment to H.R. 749, the Passenger Rail Reform and Investment Act, to evaluate the effectiveness of the Federal Railroad Administration's (FRA) 2005 rule on the use of locomotive horns at rail crossings. “It's time to update and modernize train horn regulations to allow flexibility for new technologies and innovations,” said Rep. Perlmutter. “Establishing a Quiet Zone can take years of work and cost millions of dollars delaying i...
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Today the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology held a markup of H.R. 1119, H.R. 1156, H.R. 1162, H.R. 1158, and H.R. 874. All of the bills passed out of Committee on bipartisan voice votes. H.R. 1158, the Department of Energy Laboratory Modernization and Technology Transfer Act of 2015 improves management of the National Laboratories, enhances technology commercialization, and facilitates public-private partnerships. Congressman Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) said, “DOE’s national laboratori...
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U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) issued this statement after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to fund the Department of Homeland Security through September 30, 2015: “It’s about time House Republicans brought a clean funding bill to the floor for a bipartisan vote. Funding the Department of Homeland Security means we can keep Americans safe from threats at home and abroad.” ###
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U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives voted on a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security for three weeks: “Republicans promised no more shutdowns but today we find ourselves in a terrible mess and on the verge of yet another GOP-manufactured government shutdown. We’ve been through this too many times before. The gamesmanship and political games are incredibly frustrating and disappointing but, more importantly, it is hu...
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Today, Representatives Diana DeGette (CO-01), Ed Perlmutter (CO-07), and Jared Polis (CO-02) made the following statement calling for an immediate vote in the House on a clean bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS): “For months now we have heard Republican leaders promise there would be no DHS shutdown on their watch and that we cannot play games with our national security. Yet today we are a mere 48 hours away from the brink of a security crisis that has been manufactured by th...
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Today Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) joined with other members of the Colorado delegation to ask the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee TO conduct a site visit and field hearing at the VA hospital currently under construction in Aurora, CO. The site visit will allow the Committee to see firsthand the scope of the project, better understand the management problems and help identify a path forward to complete the project. A long-term solution must be determined for taxpayers and for the700,000 vetera...
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Content originally published by the Denver Post on February 15, 2015. The appointments of U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter and U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner to key congressional committees overseeing national space policy and science exploration could help propel Colorado to the top of the aerospace heap. "We now have stability in Congress to make sure dollars and projects underway in Colorado don't get curtailed," said Metro Denver Economic Development Corp. CEO Tom Clark. "This is significant momentum to us ...
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