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Colorado’s U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet urges Senate Republicans to ‘start over’ on health care overhaul

Jun 23, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet roundly criticized health care legislation released Thursday by Senate Republicans, saying the bill would slash coverage and increase costs for Americans while cutting taxes for the extremely rich. Calling the bill “just as bad, if not worse” than a bill passed by the House at the beginning of May, the Colorado…
Colorado’s U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner slams ‘knee-jerk’ opposition to Senate GOP’s health care bill

Jun 22, 2017

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Ernest Luning

U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, one of 13 Republicans tasked with drafting Senate legislation to overhaul the nation’s health care system, said Thursday morning he was seeing the bill for the first time and cautioned critics against jumping to conclusions before reviewing it. “This is the first I’ve viewed the legislation so I am beginning to…
Colorado lawmakers praise, deride Trump’s revision to Cuba travel, trade policy

Jun 16, 2017

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Ernest Luning

President Donald Trump’s announcement Friday that he plans to tighten restrictions on travel and trade with Cuba drew mixed reactions from Colorado lawmakers, with Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner voicing support and Democrats U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter calling the move “a mistake” and ‘shortsighted.” “Effective immediately, I am canceling the…
Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams: Russia didn’t tinker with the vote even if it interfered with election

Jun 16, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Secretary of State Wayne Williams wants to make it clear that even though the Russians might have interfered with last year’s U.S. election, that doesn’t mean the hostile country tampered with ballots or vote totals. Responding to a story posted online Thursday about U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet’s recent town hall in Frisco, Williams sent Colorado…
Hickenlooper discusses state of the Democratic Party on Slate Political Gabfest appearance

Jun 9, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Gov. John Hickenlooper talks about the future of the Democratic Party, coping with face-blindness and why he believes attack ads make it difficult to move on after hard-fought elections in this week’s episode of the Slate Political Gabfest podcast, which posted online Thursday night. The two-term Democrat also talks about whether he’s running for president,…
Micek: Griffin’s stunt the latest slide into incivility

Jun 2, 2017

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John Micek

An anonymous reader of the newspaper I work for had a lot on his mind: “If that was your hero Obama’s bloody head, I do believe there would have been a small novella condemning every right-winger … by now,” he or she, operating under cover of an online pseudonym, chided me. My faceless friend, as…
May: Iran’s latest unfree and unfair election

Jun 1, 2017

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Clifford D. May

The Islamic Republic isn’t a democracy, but a theocratic dictatorship News must be new but it needn’t be surprising. The decidedly unsurprising news out of Iran last week: There was an election (of sorts) and the winner was Hassan Rouhani, the incumbent president. An apparently mild-mannered cleric with a beatific smile, he has presided over…
Front lines of Colorado refugee resettlement uncertain, but optimistic over Trump travel ban

May 31, 2017

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Adam McCoy, special to Colorado Politics

Zainab Nader left Iraq for Denver as a refugee just four months ago. She smiles big, ear-to-ear, with an infectious laugh when she talks about her short time in Colorado and reuniting with her brothers who left Iraq for Denver eight years before her. “I’m happy when I see my brothers,” she said, pushing out…
WOTUS rewrite to align with Scalia opinion, seek feedback from Colorado

May 31, 2017

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Adam McCoy, special to Colorado Politics

Federal environmental regulators are seeking “input and wisdom” from Colorado as they begin the process of rewriting a Barack Obama-era water protection rule known as WOTUS, which the White House says it now wants aligned with a Supreme Court opinion on water rights from the late Justice Antonin Scalia. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under Scott…
Bipartisan group of federal, state officials urge Trump to protect Colorado monument

May 30, 2017

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Adam McCoy, special to Colorado Politics

As the White House continues its survey of dozens of national monument designations, a bipartisan group of federal lawmakers from Colorado and a state official have urged the Trump administration to protect the state’s lone site under review. President Donald Trump ordered the Department of the Interior in late April to begin reviewing designations of national monuments…