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Bennet, Hickenlooper lay out state’s windfall for transportation, airports
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As is political tradition, Colorado’s U.S. senators, Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, are saluting federal money headed to their home state. Thanks to the bipartisan infrastructure bill passed by Congress last month, Colorado’s roads and bridges are in line for $716 million, while airports are expected to land more than $86 million in the current…
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GOP Senate candidate Eli Bremer denounces Colorado organizer over calls to execute political opponents
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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eli Bremer on Monday denounced the leader of a conservative Colorado organization who called earlier this month for the mass execution of political opponents he labeled “traitors,” including Democratic Gov. Jared Polis and Republican U.S. senators who voted for a recent spending bill. Bremer said remarks made by Joe Oltmann, the…
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WATCH: Gardner, Bennet respond to Cohen, Manafort convictions; Mueller probe
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Colorado’s congressional delegation is responding to Tuesday’s news that two of President Donald Trump’s previous allies – former campaign manager Paul Manafort and former attorney Michael Cohen – were convicted of various financial crimes. U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colorado, who traveled with Trump Tuesday to West Virginia to rally for a Republican Senate candidate, says…
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Colo.’s senators on opposite sides as confirmation battle brews over Kavanaugh
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The U.S. Senate is gearing up for a major political battle over the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, who is poised to push the high court bench in a conservative direction for the first time in decades. Kavanaugh was nominated on July 9 and has already met privately with nearly half the Senate,…
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Colorado’s Democrats try to block U.S. census citizenship question
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WASHINGTON – Colorado’s U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined a group of Senate colleagues this week in introducing a bill to block the Trump administration from asking residents about their citizenship on the upcoming U.S. census. The Trump administration wants to ask all voting-age U.S. residents about the status of their citizenship in the 2020 census.…
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How Colorado’s congressional delegation voted this week
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S. 2155: Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act This was a vote to pass S.2155 in the Senate. This bill would reduce the broad limitations placed on banks by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which was enacted in 2010 as a response to the recession that started in 2008.…
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Democrat Michael Bennet will not filibuster Neil Gorsuch nomination
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U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Democrat, says he will not vote to filibuster Trump U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. News of Bennet’s decision – a question that has been hanging over the Democrat’s head for weeks – was first reported by Colorado Independent columnist Mike Littwin. Bennet reiterated his thoughts in a statement Monday morning. “Neither Republicans…
