House passes budget, setting up COVID-19 aid bill
The House approved a Senate budget resolution on Friday, kicking off the process of passing President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 aid package.
Top House Democrats ahead of the vote met with Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and “discussed how this legislation meets the needs of the American people,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat.
The House will begin writing the bill next week, when the Senate is set to be consumed by former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, which is scheduled to begin on Feb. 9. The bill is expected to mirror Biden’s proposal, even including his provision to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
The budget measure includes language that will allow Senate Democrats to pass a COVID-19 aid bill despite objections from GOP lawmakers by lowering the required votes for passage from 60 to 51.
CO PO Calendar | Sept. 15-21
Colorado Politics
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CoPo’s weekly political calendar will help you find political and public-policy events throughout Colorado. It includes candidate and issue campaign events, public policy meetings, court hearings, state and local party conventions, assemblies, debates, rallies, parades, speaking engagements, traveling dignitary appearances,...
Evergreen shooting catapults a familiar debate back to the forefront
Marissa Ventrelli
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Updated 7 hours ago
When a 16-year-old student began firing at his schoolmates at a popular Mountain town in Colorado and critically injured two students, it catapulted to the fore an emotionally-wrought and familiar debate at the state Capitol — how to stop a...
Denver board held behind-the-scenes talks on Marrero’s contract
Nico Brambila
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Updated 9 hours ago
The Denver school board may have run afoul of Colorado’s open meetings law by channeling discussions about Superintendent Alex Marrero’s contract extension through the district’s attorney and a secret, two-member committee, according to experts. Among those raising concerns is Steve...
10th Circuit hears Denver, officer’s request to overturn $14M jury verdict after 2020 protests
Michael Karlik
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Updated 10 hours ago
Members of the Colorado-based federal appeals court considered on Wednesday whether a judge committed errors in the 2022 civil trial where jurors found Denver liable for $14 million for violating the constitutional rights of protesters. In the first lawsuit of...
‘Perseverance and quiet courage’: 10th Circuit honors Stephanie Seymour as longest-serving judge
Michael Karlik
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The Denver-based federal appeals court honored its longest-serving member on Tuesday by unveiling a portrait of Senior Judge Stephanie K. Seymour that will hang in the courthouse. “It has been an honor of a lifetime to have gotten this job...
Some hard truths for Democrats amidst the despair | SONDERMANN
Eric Sondermann
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Updated 2 days ago
Across the country, Democrats remain deep in despair, accompanied by more than a bit of lingering disbelief that they lost to Donald Trump a second time. This is all compounded by the powerlessness of seeing the Senate and House also...
Evergreen High School had a police officer — she was on medical leave during Wednesday’s shooting
Sage Kelley
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Updated 1 day ago
When a 16-year-old student began shooting and kept reloading his gun at Evergreen High School around noon on Wednesday, the police officer assigned to the campus was not on duty. That full-time school resource officer (SRO) was on medical leave....
10th Circuit weighs courts’ authority to block Colorado legislative decorum rules
Michael Karlik
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Updated 1 day ago
The Denver-based federal appeals court questioned on Wednesday whether the rules of decorum governing public comments at Colorado legislative committee hearings are beyond the reach of the judiciary, thanks to the concept of legislative immunity. During oral arguments to the...
Colorado Democrat Yadira Caraveo drops bid to win back 8th Congressional District seat
Ernest Luning
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Updated 1 day ago
Former U.S. Rep. Yadira Caraveo announced on Friday that she was ending her campaign to reclaim the Colorado congressional seat the Thornton Democrat lost last year in one of the closest U.S. House races in the country. Caraveo, a pediatrician...
Utah’s governor, in impassioned remarks, urges Americans to find ‘off-ramp’ from political violence
Michelle L. Price
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, long an advocate for civility, made an impassioned plea on Friday for Americans and young people in particular to use the horror of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s public assassination as an inflection point...
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