Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) introduced the “Prohibiting Automated Traffic Enforcement Act of 2015” to prohibit states, cities or other local governmental entities from utilizing automated red-light and radar speeding cameras for traffic enforcement purposes. The legislation includes an exception in school zones and work-construction zones. Automated traffic enforcement cameras have not sufficiently proven to reduce traffic safety and are primarily being used to generate revenue for m...
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Content originally published by the Denver Post on February 12, 2015 It's a situation that seems almost unthinkable in the modern era. But thanks to years of government mismanagement, U.S. weather forecasts soon could see a dip in accuracy — leaving the country more vulnerable to hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters. The reason lies with the nation's fleet of aging weather satellites, particularly one probe now in a polar orbit. That satellite, known as S-NPP, was launched in 2011 and...
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U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) will join the House Science, Space and Technology Committee in the 114th Congress. This second committee assignment will be in addition to the House Financial Services Committee which Rep. Perlmutter has served on since being elected to Congress in 2006. Serving on the Science, Space and Technology Committee will better enable Rep. Perlmutter to strongly advocate for important priorities such as aerospace jobs, the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) and researc...
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U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) issued the following statement today on the release of the President’s Fiscal Year 2016 budget proposal: “I’m pleased to see the President’s budget today. I think his priorities align with what I’ve been working on for several years now and that is a focus on supporting hard working families to get ahead by growing salaries and wages, expanding tax credits for working parents to help afford child care and college tuition, and ensuring a comfortable retirement. I ...
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Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) joined the entire Colorado congressional delegation to introduce legislation that would keep the VA project in Aurora moving forward. The Aurora VA Hospital Financing and Construction Reform Act of 2015 would codify the plan for the Army Corps of Engineers to assume the responsibility as the permanent construction authority to complete the project as well as raise the $800 million spending cap for the project to $1.1 billion. Increasing the spending cap to...
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U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives voted on H.R. 7: “Although I was unable to cast a vote on H.R. 7, I would have voted against this extreme bill. On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, House Republicans are choosing to turn the clock back more than 40 years rather than move forward on an issue long settled by the Supreme Court. H.R. 7 is a drastic overreach into the lives of women, threatening their health by denying access to ins...
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