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Republicans crow, Democrats squabble as game of chicken over shutdown ends, for now
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Enough Senate Democrats blinked Monday and voted with majority Republicans to fund the federal government for three more weeks – bringing an end to a three-day government shutdown – after receiving a commitment to vote on immigration legislation by early February, leading GOP lawmakers to declare grudging victory as divided Democrats endured stinging criticism from…
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Hick, Kasich plead for DACA and CHIP funding before government shutdown
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Gov. John Hickenlooper and his Republican counterpart from Ohio, Gov. John Kasich, have teamed up once again, this time to plead with Congress to pass a long-term extension of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and to save the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program before its time expires on March 5. Hickenlooper and Kasich…
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10 things to watch in the 2018 Colorado legislature
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Cloud of harassment Four legislators, two Republicans and two Democrats, stand accused of sexual harassment, while others have leveled accusations or taken sides. If lawmaking is about relationships, then both could be strained in the early going. A surplus for roads? A December revenue forecast suggested the legislature might have unforeseen hundreds of million…
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Perlmutter greets congressional website visitors with message about DACA, health care funding
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U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter says he’ll be greeting visitors to his congressional website with a message of support for young immigrants and federal heath care programs until Congress tackles the issues with permanent fixes. “I support Dreamers, the Children’s Health Insurance Program and community health centers,” reads white text on a black pop-up graphic that…
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Hickenlooper among governors calling on Congress to fix DACA, end ‘holiday hostage situation’
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Gov. John Hickenlooper and a bipartisan group of governors on Wednesday called on congressional leaders to come up with a legislative fix before the end of the year to protect immigrants brought to the United States when they were children from deportation. “This holiday hostage situation has gone on too long,” Hickenlooper said in a…
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Time to say ‘enough’ to attacks on children’s health care coverage
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Of the many complicated health care issues we face, one of the most immediate threats – and one that is easily solved – is the looming loss of coverage for more than 75,000 Colorado kids and 800 pregnant moms who depend on the federal Children’s Health Insurance Program. CHIP provides low-cost health insurance coverage to…
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Colorado lawmakers pressure Congress to extend CHIP for low-income kids
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WASHINGTON – Colorado’s governor and a congresswoman are pressuring federal lawmakers to renew the CHIP program that provides medical insurance to children of low-income families. Republican congressional leaders are giving hints the Children’s Health Insurance Program will continue but not in its current form. Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, helped to organize a request to…
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Hickenlooper, 11 other governors call on Congress to reauthorize CHIP program
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Gov. John Hickenlooper has joined a bipartisan group of 12 governors calling on Congress to reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which is set to expire Jan. 31. About 75,000 children and nearly 800 pregnant women in Colorado stand to lose health care coverage if the program is not renewed, Hickenlooper’s office says, and the…
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Hickenlooper, Brown advocate for Congress to fund children’s health insurance
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and his Oregon counterpart, Kate Brown, took to the phones today to urge Congress to reauthorize the federal health insurance program for kids and pregnant women. Hickenlooper told reporters on the conference call that about 75,000 children and 800 pregnant women are at risk of losing their federally-funded health insurance. Money…
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Colorado senators working to keep CHIP program in place for needy kids, pregnant women
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Keeping the state’s CHIP program – Children’s Health Insurance Plan – in place for kids and pregnant mothers is at the forefront of concerns in Washington and Colorado. Funding is set to cease for the program at the end of January unless Congress acts quickly to reauthorize it. Finance Committee chairman and lead author of…
